[Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

[Gerry Creager]

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, J. Lance Cotton wrote:
> 
>> <begin off-topic ranting and blathering>
> 
> Oh, I thought you already did!  hi hi
> 
> 
>> 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.

As I recall, there was approximately one station reporting "problems" 
associated with the OpenTrak incident in question.  The lack of 
reproducibility suggests that the null hypothesis was rejected.

> Your post was on topic BTW.  At least as far as I'm concerned.

I certainly don't think it rated a <rant></rant> tag with attribution.

gerry
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