[Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

[Lance Cotton]

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, J. Lance Cotton wrote:

>> There's no possible way that OpenTRAC could interfere with APRS any more
>> than APRS interferes with other APRS operation.
> 
> I disagree with that statement, but only slightly.  There's no way a
> "properly coded" APRS program would be bothered by OpenTrac.  Some
> of the programs might try to decode packets that used a different
> protocol ID than APRS, for instance if they had KISS TNC capability
> they might see TCP/IP packets and OpenTrac packets and try to decode
> them as APRS.  The program in this case _should_ filter out anything
> that's not the APRS protocol ID, but some may not.

Well, I think we ended up doing a little survey and found zero APRS 
programs that didn't check PID, right? It's hard to remember -- my wife 
found a gray hair in my head last week!

-Lance KJ5O