[Xastir] Message ACK question

[Jason Hitesman]

Curt Mills wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Jason Hitesman wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ok, think I found my problem...for some reason my TNC isn't decoding the
>>ACK's from other people so it's not an Xastir issue at all but hardware.
>>
>>Guess I should finally break down and get a new TNC and retire this
>>ancient KAM that never worked well :(
> 
> Were you using the kam-specific tnc startup file?  That might be all
> there is to fixing your setup.

I tried that but with my older KAM the startup file needed some tweaking 
before it would work.  And even then the results were horrible.  I 
switched the KAM to KISS mode and it made a big difference - about 50% 
more packets were getting decoded in KISS than running native.

But even running KISS mode it seems to detect only about 50% as many 
packets as AGWPE does with the same radio/antenna.  I've tried all sorts 
of things to get the KAM working better but it's always been troublesome 
since the day we bought it...that was why I never got big into packet 
originally until APRS sucked me back in recently :D

>>The one question I still have is....does the color coding that's been
>>mentioned not work with KISS interface?  Because I've never seen
>>anything in other colors relating to messages.  Or is there a setting
>>somewhere I have to change?
> 
> It's not color really, it's normal/reverse text.  Either white on
> black or black on white.  No settings to change other than make sure
> Satellite ACK mode is off.

Oh, ok.  I have noticed that.  I was expecting the text color to switch 
from red to green to black or something from the recent discussions.

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Jason Hitesman
N8INJ