[Xastir] Reciprocal call signs

[Joe Veldhuis]

The AX.25 spec limits the call to 6 alphanumeric characters plus one byte for SSID, so that's not a limitation of Xastir. Your friend's best bet is to put his full callsign in the station comment field.

-Joe, N8FQ

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:32:41 -0600
Tate Belden <kc7zru at kc7zru.net> wrote:

> Got a bit of a situation. College kid I've been working with for a few 
> years is currently in New Zeland. He's going to be going to Austrailia 
> to race a solar powered vehicle here in a few weeks.
> 
> He wants to use Xastir and a tracker to follow what's going on. BUT, he 
> can't get his reciprocal call sign into the station config dialog. He 
> wants to use KE7ESD/ZL-15 - and that's too many characters.
> 
> Is there an easy way to change that - even if just for his copy - or 
> maybe a separate SSID box or reciprocal box? You guys are the pros - I 
> just come up with problems.
> 
> Thanks!
> Tate