[Xastir] Anyone use TT4 with Xastir

[n.heyen at comcast.net]

Hi folks, 



I've been trying to setup a fill-in digi / igate with Xastir 1.9.8, an Icom V8000, a Byonics TT4 and running under Ubuntu 9.10. What I am trying to do is add an igate to the local APRS network and be able to track my D7 via RF locally. 



I've been working to get this running for a couple of weeks and have got close but not quite. 



So I'm turning to the experts for advice. 

    1. Should I use the Alpha or KISS firmware? 


        • I've got the Alpha firmware loaded and have been trying to get the correct RXAMP and other multitude of settings changed 
    2. 
Which interfaces need to be used so I can gate internet traffic and act as a fill-in? 

        • I'm runnign the internet and KISS 
    3. 
Are there special settings that need to be used or changed in files 

        • Do I need to use the Serial TNC interface and use or modify the start and / or stop files? 
    4. 
Which path(s) should I use? 

        • I've got WIDE2-2 for the RF and WIDE2-1 for the RF->Internet 
        • Where all do these need to be set? In Xastir and in the TT4 firmware or anywhere else? 



Where I'm at is I think I'm gating traffic from other stations but I cannot see my D7 locally or any other station RF station. I can be seen as KC9NVN on aprs.fi and others. When I look at the station info in aprs.fi, I haven't been seen on the radio for a few days but when I look at the "show graphs" I can see that I'm passing at least a few packets from RF to APRS-IS and there is some RF traffic being heard by KC9NVN. There are only a bit of RF traffic seen. 



When I look at the incoming data in Xastir, I see NET traffic but no (or very little) TNC traffic and I can't see KC9NVN on my D7's list screen. 



I'm certainly not an expert, in fact pretty close to a newbie, so my notions of how APRS really works is probably not right. But it seems that no matter what, I've either got a setting in Xastir wrong or the TT4 is wrong. 



Anyone willing to point my in the proper direction? 

Thanks! 

Norman 

KC9NVN