[Xastir] IGate into socal.aprs2.net?

[Craig Anderson]

Ooops.  I may have an explanation for my problem.
When I set up my 100 mile filter on the socal.aprs2.net
INET interface, I used rounded LAT/LON numbers,
which put the center of my filter 20 to 30 miles away
from me.  The stations I was missing were within 100
miles of me but maybe not the center of my filter.

Sorry all,
Craig
n6yxk

On Aug 24, 2007, at 11:46 PM, Craig Anderson wrote:

>
> On Aug 24, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Craig Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> Or is it that Xastir marks a site as being from the TNC
>>> because it is first seen by the TNC?
>>
>> I believe if it is heard by the TNC at all (doesn't have to be
>> first?) the flag gets set.  Xastir treats RF-heard stations as a
>> higher priority than INET-heard stations for this, so if both flags
>> are set I think it assumes it's RF.
>
> Excellent!  That makes sense.
>>
>>
>>> But when I bring up another Xastir on another machine
>>> that is Internet-only I don't see a whole lot of sites that
>>> my TNC Xastir sees (all within my 100 mile filter).  Are
>>> the IGate servers broken?  Or do they hide some of the
>>> digipeaters?  Can't be an Xastir problem can it?  ;-)
>>
>> You might have some filtering turned on in your INET interface(s).
>
> I have a filter on the INET interface set to limit stations
> to within 100 miles.
>
>>
>> You might not have global igating and per-interface igating turned
>> on.
>
> I have both set.
>>
>> You might not have a passcode entered on the per-interface
>> properties dialog.
>
> Yes, got one of those.
>
> I watched the "View->Incoming Data" window and saw
> my Xastir igate packets from the TNC to socal.aprs2.net
> but the data never showed up on socal.aprs2.net, as
> viewed in my other Xastir with INET only.
>
> My problem is that there were quite a few stations that
> showed up in my xastir with a TNC & INET that did
> not show up in my xastir with only an INET interface,
> some of them very important digipeaters.  I was trying
> to igate them to socal.aprs2.net.  All the interface
> filters were set to 100 miles and centered on the same
> location.  All the missing stations were well within 100 miles.
>
> I would expect that if the socal.aprs2.net server were
> working correctly then both of my machines would show the
> same objects.  But with maybe 20% of objects consistently
> missing from the INET-only machine over a period of 2 days?
> I think something's broken.  Am I missing something?
>
> With these missing objects, my TNC machine was not hearing
> them directly, it was hearing them through digipeaters.  These
> missing machines should not be missing from the server.
>
> Thanks very much for any sanity you can offer,
> Craig
> n6yxk
>
>
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