[Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:00:13PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <acraiga at pacbell.net> flavor, containing:
>  Hi all,
>  	I thought I read in some docs that in Xastir
>  you can draw CAD object on a map and then
>  transmit them to other Xastir stations.  But the
>  help window just said no.  I'm looking at 1.8.4
>  currently.  Can Xastir transmit CAD objects?

Nope.  CAD objects aren't APRS objects.  There was talk of making it possible
to transmit "multipoint" objects like the NWS does for "areas of maximum
concern" but that is not in any version of Xastir yet.

CAD objects are purely on-screen drawings.

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