[Xastir] Message ACK question

[Jason Hitesman]

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Curt Mills wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Jason Hitesman wrote:
>
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>>Also - one clarification on the pop-ups that annoy me.  If for example I
>>do a ?APRSD? query or a path query to a local station and their reply
>>gets digi'd so I hear it twice then even if the previous window is still
>>open I get a second window with the same stuff.  It gets really bad if
>>the reply gets digi'd more than once or relayed as well and suddenly I
>>can have a dozen windows open from a query that gave a one line reply :(
>
> I don't use that feature, so didn't notice that or get annoyed by
> it.  It's possible that we could add code later to check whether the
> response was in our local database (and recent) before bringing up
> the popup.  Add it to the feature request list.

I'll go ahead and add it to the request list.  One of these days I
really need to start examining the code to see if I can help whittle
down that list a little instead of just adding to it :D

>>Oh and all the stations I've been messaging that have said they're not
>>hearing my ACK's are running UI FWIW.
>
> It's possible that UI-View didn't implement the REPLY-ACK protocol
> and so isn't understanding our format for ack's...  Might be a while
> before UI-View gets tweaked though, as the author (Roger Barker)
> passed away two days ago.
>
> It's also possible that we're not properly detecting the lack of
> REPLY-ACK support on the other end and changing our ACK format to
> match.

Nope, looks like it's a radio/TNC issue for me so no worries on Xastir.
  Just time for me to either replace my 80's era equipment or find
someone who has the tools and knowhow to do some alignments on it.

Oh - and FWIW, just got back from the local VE session and I'm no longer
a tech+ I'm now a full general :D  Maybe in a few months I'll even get
gutsy and give that extra a try ;)

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Jason Hitesman
N8INJ (now /AG as well!)




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