[Xastir] APRS-IS without authentication?

[Rick Green]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Gerry Creager wrote:

> You're using Tier 2 servers, right?
>
  No, at the moment, I'm using rotate.aprs.net, although at one point I 
tried indiana.aprs2.net, and had the same problem there as well.

> Rick Green wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Rick Green <rtg at aapsc.com> wrote:
>>>> Sometimes, I'd like to bring up xastir on my laptop and connect to an
>>>> internet server just to see what's going on in the neighborhood.  I've
>>>> found, however, that I don't get any data from the aprs-is unless I
>>>> 'authentacate' myself with my callsign and passcode.
>>> 
>>> do you have a position-dependent filter?
>>> 
>>> I had the same problem, until I figured out that with my filter to
>>> only show me stations near my position (the r filter?) I needed to
>>> send a position report for the filter to have enough data to work.
>>>
>>  I had discovered that a while ago, so I converted to the 'a' filter where 
>> I explicitly declare the bounds.  But yesterday, I found that even an 'a' 
>> filter, or even the unfiltered 'firehose' feed was silent until I entered 
>> my passcode.
>> 
>
>

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