[Xastir] Xastir Newbie having receive problems

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:28:33PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jhunter at sardognetwork.org> flavor, containing:
> I figured out the problem. Just for the sake of passing this along in 
> case some other newbie runs into the same problem.
> 
> In the station set up section I told the software that my radio set up 
> is a bit better than what it really is.  before I told it that my 
> antenna was at 20' at 4 watts, I upped that and other stations started 
> showing up on my screen.
> 
> I guess when using that part of the config it will screen out anything 
> that it thinks is outside of it's "normal" coverage area.

Nope.

That data is used *only* to add a "PHG" extension to your outgoing packets
so others can see what your advertised range is.  Xastir does nothing else
with this information.

You must just have had a hard time decoding incoming packets for a while.
The TT4 might not be hearing so well.  It's just a coincidence that changing
your PHG settings in the station set-up happened around the same time that
the TT4 had a bunch of good decodes.

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