[Xastir] User Archive List

[hasan schiers]

Hmmmm...must have been a coincidence. I thought that for some strange reason 
that when I installed Linspire 5.0 and Xastir over the weekend, it 
auto-subscribed me to the Xastir list. I was happy...because I had 
discontinued my subscription several months ago when I had a crash and 
didn't have a computer to put Xastir on.

Over the weekend I did a fresh install on a another computer and I 
immediately (and coincidentally) started receiving the Xastir list again. I 
went to the Xastir page and, to make sure, re-subscribed. It told me I was 
already subscribed.

So...I'm guessing that something went "bongo" at the server, it lost (among 
other things), the current subscriber list and went back to a previous list 
(before I had unsubscribed) and that is why I started receiving the messages 
again.

No biggie for me, I wanted to receive them again...just a very strange 
coincidence.

73,

...hasan, N0AN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
To: "Tom Robson, ve7did" <ve7did at dccnet.com>
Cc: "Xastir Mailing List" <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] User Archive List


> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Tom Robson, ve7did wrote:
>
>> Anyone know what happened to the last year's worth of info on the mailing
>> list....  goes from July 2005 to Aug 2006?
>
> It appears to me that something happened to the list over the
> weekend.  I posted one item that didn't make it to the list at that
> time, and now my admin password for the list doesn't work.  Either
> the list box took a hit or Chuck's doing some admin on that box.
>
>
>> Trying to find out the rationale for the 12m x 18m box? In simple 
>> terms...
>
> Can't help you with the "simple".
>
> They're precision rectangles.  They show the precision inherent in
> the packets transmitted by that station.  Zoom in to a station
> sending NMEA or Base-91 compressed packets and you'll see much
> smaller rectangles, if you see them at all!  Try WE7U-3 or WE7U-12
> for instance (Base-91).  For NMEA packets, try KD7NM-9 or N7QNM-9.
> You should be able to snag their raw packets in from findu if
> they're not on the air when you want to play with this.
>
> These rectangles also show how truncation affects the posit.  They
> show the area where the station might be, assuming truncation
> instead of rounding of the extra digits.  I haven't heard of a
> single piece of software/firmware yet that does rounding, so the
> rectangles should be correct.
>
> Oh yea, speaking of findu:  Extra spaces are removed by findu.com
> before sending us the track data.  I recently did a tweak to Xastir
> to add three spaces to each line after the download, just
> before the "<br>" characters.  This allows me to download tracks
> from Base-91 stations that aren't sending course/speed/altitude.
> Base-91 requires 3 characters there but findu doesn't respect the
> original line contents.  I can now download the track for "WE7U-3",
> which is a station in that category (but doesn't move much).
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U.   APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
> "Lotto:    A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
> "Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
> "The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"
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