[Xastir] WX updates and comments

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:00:46AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <aa9vi at yahoo.com> flavor, containing:
> A Ui-View defctor is now on board.
> 
> 2. Is there a way to send a comment following the WX report?? It's easy with UI-View. I need help with xastir. I think it sends fine with normal station config, but when I add in WX station I don't see it on the output packet on aprs.fi.
> 

No, it is currently *NOT* do-able in Xastir.  Once you set the station as
a WX station, the posit text is too long to have any status or other information
in it.  This is also a problem insofar as weather stations also have no
PHG information attached.

Other programs do this by sending out a separate posit with PHG and status
info at some interval in addition to the WX reports.  Or at least, this
is the way that packets from other stations using other software show up when
I've seen them running as weather stations.

If Xastir had an option to send additional status posits every nth real posit,
it would do the trick.  

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