[Xastir] New England feed down?

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Tue Apr 12 11:47:27 EDT 2005


On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Tom Russo wrote:

> Unless you have a fat pipe and a beefy machine, I wouldn't use firenet.us:2023
> ---  your display will be a sea of blue (all the wx and water gauges), and
> your connection will be busy full time.  I use a filtered port.

For those that don't know, "sea of blue" is a catch-phrase for a
very annoying thread that happened a long time back on APRSSIG...


> My current internet-based setup uses arizona.aprs2.net:14580 for most things,
> and firenet.us:14580 for the rest, both with range filters in place
> ('r/35/-106/500' --- for 500km around 35dN/106dW).

This is probably a good time to ask:  What would be a good server
suggestion for the new folks?  We can change the docs to match, or
just point them to a few links to find their own servers.

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