[Xastir] Xastir with D72 worked for me

[Kurt Savegnago]

I'm sorry,

  I forgot to mention I was using a Slackware laptop setup and I had compiled Xastir 2.X by rote. Perhaps in the future someone will have
better initiation strings for the TNC rather than using the old D7 ones.

                               Kurt KC9LDH

--- On Sat, 12/11/10, Kurt Savegnago <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Kurt Savegnago <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [Xastir] Xastir with D72 worked for me
> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Date: Saturday, December 11, 2010, 6:14 AM
> Hmmmmm,
> 
>   I used the stock initiation file for the D7 and
> Xastir worked for 
> me. It's the one that comes with Xastir. Now if someone
> knows of a better
> command string to initiate the program, I'd be all ears.
> 
>   I simply plugged the 72 in a USB port, turned it on
> and made sure it
> was on packet.  Did a dmesg command in a terminal and
> saw it was connected.
> Fired up Xastir and tried the KISS file I use for the
> TNC-X. It said "UP"
> and the command to transmit was seen on the "Incoming Data"
> screen but
> nothing was transmitted or plotted.  Not necessarily a
> surprise there.
> 
>   I then used the stock tnc-startup.thd7 and
> tnc-stop.thd7 that comes with Xastir and it communicated
> just like it does with my D7A(g).
> 
>   I've only had it 2 days and just tried it. 
> Mine worked with the stock
> D7 initiation string.  I'm game if someone comes up
> with a better or more efficient string to use.  I'm too
> dumb to be a TNC programmer.:-)
> 
>                
>                 Kurt
> KC9LDH