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

[Fred Hillhouse]

Greetings Mike,

Now I am on the same page. Thank you for our explanation.

Best regards,
Fred

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org 
> [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org] On Behalf Of Mike Long (N3QD)
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 17:49
> To: xastir at xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Gating WX from IP to RF - THE SOLUTION
> 
> 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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