[Xastir] Whishes

[BDonnell at ar-northwest.com]

And most standalone TNC's provide a CALIBRATE command, which allows you to use a terminal program, as Curt mentioned, to key and unkey the transmitter, and to select which tone to use for the test, or to diddle back and forth between the two tones, at a high rate.  Most of these also incorporate a watchdog feature, such that if you leave the TNC in transmit for "too long", the TNC will drop out of transmit on its own, typically after 30 seconds or 60 seconds of continuous transmit.

Bob, KD7NM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curt, WE7U [mailto:archer at eskimo.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:48 AM
> To: Massimo Corinaldesi
> Cc: xastir at xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Whishes
> 
> 
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Massimo Corinaldesi wrote:
> 
> > I want to ask the developpers of Xastir for adding a feature (I
> > think) useful: the possibility to send a steady train, via a
> > on/off command, of characters (es: "...this is a test transmission
> > from I0MCF, this is....") in order to adjust the input level of
> > the radio transmitter or control the emission on a monitor scope.
> 
> My first thoughts on this are that there should be methods in place
> to do similar things without using Xastir.  If you're using AX.25
> networking you can do it via the "beacon" command from a script to
> repeat it.  If you're using serial TNC interfaces you can do it
> using Seyon or Minicom or the like.
> 
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