[Xastir] Weather station type

[Rick Green]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, clayj at nwlink.com wrote:

> Just to be clear - the "desired effect" here is that the string coming
> FROM Xastir includes the "Weather Station Type" for whatever weather
> station provided the data to Xastir, per the APRS spec.  Is that correct?
>
> Does annyone from the Dev team want to weigh in here?  It seems this is a
> bit "different", since now APRS won't know that Xastir is anywhere in the
> loop.
   Not really, the TOCALL still identifies Xastir as the originator of the 
packet, the suffix identifies the specific source of the weather data 
alone.  You really can have your cake and eat it too!

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