[Xastir] GPS questions

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote:

> got a couple of GPS questions.  fair warning, I'm still at 1.8.5 and
> 1.9.1 on my machines.
>
> How does xastir behave if there are multiple GPS interfaces active?
> Any problems?

It will probably keep shifting your position a bit as it decodes one
and then the other.  If you've told Xastir that you're a mobile
station then it might cause trouble as it toggles between the two.
SmartBeaconing will get confused and perhaps cause a lot of
transmits if you have it enabled.


> I did peruse the code a bit (db.c), and it almost looks like the
> waypoint code is buried behind a proximity alert message:

Yes.  That's so you don't try to send 30,000 waypoint messages to
your GPS.  You can set the size of the proximity circle so that you
only send nearby stations to it.

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