[Xastir] 'Owning' station ID?

[Rick Green]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, J. Lance Cotton wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:28:01 -0400 (EDT), Rick Green <rtg at aapsc.com> wrote:
> > ... If
> > I were to put up an antenna and an RF port, might I be on shaky ground wrt
> > third-party traffic if I enable inet->rf gating?
>
> Nah... If you enable inet->rf gating, the only thing that gets gated
> are APRS "messages" addressed to an RF station which xastir has heard
> locally (for some definition of local) recently (for some definition
> of recent),
  Well, I won't be doing that.  I personally believe that messaging is a
totally inappropriate use of APRS.  Think about it:  using a broadcast
protocol for a point-to-point message, with duplicated, unreliable,
application-level acks is a terrible waste of bandwidth. It's like
carrying on a 'private' conversation using bullhorns across a crowded
sports stadium.  If I had my 'druthers, it'd be stripped from the spec.
We have better protocols, on other frequencies, for that.

-- 
Rick Green

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