[Xastir] How do I use a Tiny Trak 4 (TT4) with Xastir?

[Steve Rogers]

TT4 is a kiss interface, try interface>serial kiss tnc
/dev/ttyS0 for com port 1, baud 9600. should key radio and tt4 if not try /dev/ttyS1 com port 2. steve kd5mkv

> From: n.heyen at comcast.net
> To: xastir at lists.xastir.org
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:41:19 -0500
> Subject: [Xastir] How do I use a Tiny Trak 4 (TT4) with Xastir?
> 
> Hi folks,
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> I have a Byonics Tiny Trak 4 (TT4) loaded with Alpha 0.61 firmware. It is
> connected with a Byonics cable to an Icom V8000 radio and an older PC
> running Ubuntu 9.10. The PC had a hardware serial com port (actually 2, COM1
> and COM2). I have Xastir 1.9.8 complied and running.
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> I played with RXAMP settings and MONITOR. When idle, I see MONITOR values of
> about 2; when see what I suspect is a local APRS signal (the bar graph on
> the V8000 goes across the screen and no transmit LED on the TT4), MONITOR
> shows about 79.
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> When I go to CALIBRATE and listen on the D7, I hear clear low and high tones
> and a mix when I use the L, H, B and S keys. I have no idea what the TWIST
> settings are for or what to do with them.
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> Are these more or less indicating the signals are about right?
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> If so, what Interface should I be using? Currently I'm loading the
> Serial-TNC since this is a base fill-in station with no GPS attached.
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> Is that correct?
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> If so, what start and stop files should I use or what changes to I need to
> make to the default STARTUP-TNC.sys and STOP-TNC.sys files?
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> The station is KC9NVN. When I look in FindU, I don't see any raw packets
> coming across.
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> When I take a walk around the neighborhood with my D7 (KC9NVN-7), I am not
> seen by KC9NVN even though I'm seldom more than a few hundred feet away so I
> don't think the station is correct.
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> To be honest, this has been incredibly frustrating and I'm about ready to
> pull the plug on the whole idea. If some one can show me where I've gone
> wrong, I really would appreciate it.
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> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Norman
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