[Xastir] Xastir is not reading APRS reports from my Kenwood TH-D7(g)

[Jake]

Tom, thank you for the script names, that helped.

I finally figured out what the true problem was.  The baud rate of the COM
port needed to be set to 9600, not 1200.  I had it set to 1200 because
that's what my radio said, and was confused between APRS/radio baud and the
COM port baud on the computer.

Thanks again,

Jake



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Russo [mailto:russo at bogodyn.org] 
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:22 PM
To: Jake
Cc: xastir at xastir.org
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir is not reading APRS reports from my Kenwood
TH-D7(g)

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:15:22PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron
collision of the <snakyjake2 at hotmail.com> flavor, containing:
> Problem:
> Xastir is not reading APRS reports from my Kenwood TH-D7(g).
> 
> Information:
> Dell Latitude CPt
> Xastir v1.8.2
> Kubuntu 6.10
> COM1 enabled in BIOS
> Kenwood on "Device 0 UP Serial TNC /dev/ttyS0".
> Using Xastir defaults.
> dmesg reports: serial8250 ttys0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq=4) 16550A
> Kenwood has the TNC turned on and I can see the APRS objects on the
Kenwood
> screen.
> 
> Any ideas of how I can make this work or troubleshoot?

Did you use the "tnc-startup.thd7" startup script and "tnc-stop.thd7" stop 
script when you defined the interface?  

If you can see the APRS objects on the kenwood screen, then xastir hasn't
put it in PKT mode --- you can't use xastir with the D7 in APRS mode, it
has to be in PKT mode.  Putting the two correct scripts in the properties
dialog for the interface should make xastir get the d7 in the right mode on
startup, and put it back in standalone APRS mode when it shuts down.
 
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