[Xastir] NEMA Out

Lynn W. Deffenbaugh KJ4ERJ at arrl.net
Tue Aug 17 15:09:15 EDT 2010


Or are you asking for an NMEA waypoint output of the objects to show up 
on a display GPS?

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 02:01:20PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <michael.yoyo at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>   
>> Hi, was was wonder if there is way to force Xastir to Beacon objects With
>> NEMA packets instead of APRS(ie. a raw GGA string). Thanks
>>     
>
> No, there is not.  Xastir will decode raw NMEA strings but will not produce
> them.
>
> Raw NMEA strings are rather long, and there's no real advantage to using them
> other than the added precision --- which you can get with Base-91 or !DAO!
> formats at a fraction of the cost to channel capacity.
>
>   




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