[Xastir] Problems with lighting up Counties, NWS files

[Alex Carver]

--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> wrote:
> More to the point, I AM interested in things like
> this.  However, I offer that, while purpose-built for
> APRS, the D7[01]0 is a flawed radio when folks try to do too
> much with it.

Oh sure, they both have their limitations (though the D710 at least has the advantage of upgradable firmware unlike it's older sibling).  But I think this feature would have been available on any simple text interface.  Take a regular radio with a TNC and attach a HamHUD or something similar and you still have the equivalent process:  view the raw packet in a small screen.  It's just that I happen to have two D700s and a D7A so that's what I'm used to.

> Now to add to the mix, it looks like WXSVR is dead and
> while Pete Loveall has something together that will serve
> out similar data, the one we relied upon for so long is
> history.  Sorta the nature of the hobby: Someone drops
> a service and it's not replicated elsewhere.  I've been
> trying to make sure the Core stays replicated and
> geographically diverse, and I'm doing the same with the CWOP
> servers.  But that's another story.

Yeah, I noticed that on the APRS SIG mailing list.  I haven't had my Xastir system back up since I moved (still working out some issues with heat in the room) so I didn't notice it had been switched off until it was mentioned.  Of course that also spawned a nice war over services, replication, release of code, etc.