[Xastir] New user..and thanks..

[Jeff Mohler]

Ya..that thought hit me at dinner..just have to get a second base radio.  ;)



On 11/18/06, Jason Winningham <jdw at eng.uah.edu> wrote:
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> On Nov 18, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Jeff Mohler wrote:
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> > Not sure what to do with timing yet, most of the time we'll have no
> > more than 5 vehicles to track, at Mid Ohio I could have up to 12-15.
> > I'll have to play with the options in the opentracker on the sending
> > side, to see how I can most intelligently deal with near-real-time
> > updates.  When in action, 30s is far too slow, but I dont see how 5
> > vehicles could xmit updates every 5 seconds without lots of
> > collisions.
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> Use another frequency - let odd vehicles use freq A and even vehicles
> use freq B.  The xastir station has a receiver/TNC on each frequency.
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> With frequent updates, timeslotting is your friend.
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> Now that I think about it, if you're updating every few seconds there
> may be a bit of latency in xastir's display processing.
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> -Jason
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