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

[Gerry Creager]

Take a look at wview for *nix.  Works well with the VP series of stations.

gerry

Mike Long (N3QD) wrote:
> 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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