[Xastir] Suggestion with speech

[Steve Friis]

Better said than what I said. Thanks Dan.

Steve/WM5Z


Dan wrote:
> It would be good to have the option to use the festival feature with just
> the current station being tracked, or with a given callsign(s).
>
> I like the voice feature, but it becomes completely worthless and overloads
> festival's buffer when there are more than 3-4 callsigns inside the maximum
> area, depending on the GPS update time. I have had to wait 10 minutes for
> the buffer to "read" itself out in busy areas.
>
> I use xastir in my car laptop, and it would become even more invaluable with
> the above features. My main use would be to hear how close I was to another
> unit when roaming around a course in a public service event.
>
> Any hope of implementation?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Dan N7NMD
>
>
> On 9/17/07, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Steve Friis wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I noticed that when speech is activated with "tracked station", the
>>> proximity alerts enumerate how close the tracked station is in relation
>>> to every other station within the distance parameter. This seems like an
>>> awful waste of resources and very annoying. My thought is that I would
>>> only want this station to tell me where it is at in relation to me. I
>>> could care less where it is at in relation to each weather station,
>>> mobile on the highway, base station and digipeater. Am I wrong or
>>> missing some point?
>>>       
>> I believe this feature was added to support a particular event.
>> Memory is fuzzy, but I think it might have been the NYC Marathon or
>> similar.  The idea was that they could listen to the speech instead
>> of having to watch the map to know where each tracker was in
>> relation to each checkpoint along the course.
>>
>> --
>> Curt, WE7U: <www.eskimo.com/~archer/>     XASTIR: <www.xastir.org>
>>
>>