[Xastir] Xastir as a igate?

[Jacob Tennant]

Thank you sir

Jake - K8JWT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir as a igate?


> On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Jacob Tennant wrote:
>
>> I have got my xastir setup running on a old laptop under Fedora11 but was
>> wondering how this is going to work when I go to connect the TNC as the
>> laptop only has USB ports. I have a USB to serial adapter I got from MFJ 
>> for
>> use on a soundcard interface but never have tried to use it under 
>> Fedora11
>> linux.
>
> FWIW:  I'm running this station with a USB->Serial cable hooked to a
> TNC-X and it just runs and runs.  In my case it shows up as
> /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1.  Sometimes the number will switch from
> one to the other on a reboot if I have other USB devices plugged in.
>
>
>> Like I said in the subject line I am going to set this laptop up as a
>> unattended igate system in my workshop with a old radio and MFJ-1270C TNC
>> soas to serve my area as well as get more activity going again.
>
> Set up the 1270 in KISS mode and use either AX.25 networking or
> Serial KISS TNC interface from Xastir to talk to it.  It'll be more
> dependable than TNC command-mode in the long run.
>
>
>> PS: How can I tell xastir to pass NWS laerts from the internet stream as 
>> I am
>> using the user defined server ports so as to not overload the laptops 
>> cpu.
>
> Two things:  Set up the internet stream filtering to pass the ones
> of interest to  you.  Set up the nws-stations.txt file in
> ~/.xastir/data/ directory so that Xastir knows what "callsigns" you
> want passed to RF.
>
> -- 
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