[Xastir] Gating WX from IP to RF - THE SOLUTION

[Mike Long (N3QD)]

Fred,

	I have a little bit of a unique situation.  My WX Station is a Davis  
Vantage Pro.  The only way to get the VP to work with XASTIR on Linux  
is software called Meteo.  Now, I'm not a Linux genius, or a complete  
newbie either, but Meteo uses MySql and is very difficult to set up.   
Almost none of the instructions that came with the package worked on  
my Ubuntu System.  So since I could not get Meteo working, I needed  
to find another way to get my WX station on APRS.  The software  
package I'm using to log WX Data from the VP and create my WX Website  
is called WView.  I got that set up on my system in about two hours.   
The problem is it does not interface with Xastir, so I needed to find  
another way of beaconing my WX Data to RF.  This whole thread was  
about getting Xastir to gate my, and only my, WX from the net to RF.

	N1NAZ is doing what you may call the "normal" way to do multiple  
stations.  I too have APRS in my truck as N3QD-9.  His -4 (HF Digi)  
was last received 42 days ago and is likely off the air now.  If I  
were able to get Meteo working, my WX would be a different SSID under  
my callsign too.  I could not do that in this case because Xastir  
would not gate my callsign from IP to RF.  That's why I had to use a  
tactical callsign as my station call.  This is all a big workaround  
because Xastir doesn't directly support the Vantage Pro, and I wanted  
my WX on the local RF network.  I had to do the same thing in a  
different way with UI-View.  Make sense?

73,
Mike (N3QD)

	
On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Fred Hillhouse wrote:

>
> Okay I am confused, why not do something like this guy?
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=n1NAZ*
>
> N1NAZ is a vehicle
> N1NAZ-1 is the WX
> N1NAZ-4 looks like a digi and igate
> N1NAZ-5 looks like a digi and igate
>
> -5 looks like duplication of -4.
>
>
> I looked at N1IIC's stations and he has -3 as a IGate and -4 as a  
> Digi. He
> is mobile somewhere else in the country as -14.
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=n1iic*
>
> What is the "normal" way to do multiple stations? Is there a better  
> way?
>
> Best regards,
> Fred
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