[Xastir] Filters?

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:55:26PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kf4drr at windstream.net> flavor, containing:
> I've tried setting up some filters but was left feeling like i made a mistake 
> in my setup.
> 
> i tried m/160 (should work out to 100 miles from my location right?) in the 
> filters box under interface > interface control > properties
> 
> i set the port number to 14580 and waited.
> 
> was left feeling like what i had done shut all traffic off from the igate. so 
> i returned the default settings.

Did you set up your interface so that you transmitted your position to the
APRS-IS server?  If not, it has no idea where you are and so can't tell you
when there is a station within 160km of you.

Check that your interface has "Allow Transmitting" turned on.

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