[Xastir] Moving vehicle speed
David
djmunn at bigpond.com
Wed Jul 28 03:19:48 EDT 2010
Hi Curt ...tnx for reply...for the moment ive switched off the vehicle
speed so the problem is not being TXed ....ill check the tnc as i think
it may be sending some garbage.....
73 David VK4BDJ
Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, David wrote:
>
>> Hi All.....i have had it bought to my attention that my Xastir system
>> is showing and t/xing the speed of vehicles at a very fast rate....eg
>> VK3HCZ-9 @ 948km/h.....i think this should be 48km/h
>> this has only started to happen within the last few days ...i did a
>> update-xastir command a couple of days ago and it has seemed to
>> happen since then.....
>>
>> any thoughts or ideas on this problem
>
> Check that your TNC is not messing up, your baud rate on your serial
> port isn't too high for your computer to service the interrupts
> without overflow, you don't have RF getting into your system, your
> TNC isn't in garbage mode, others on frequency aren't messing up
> packets via their serial lines or TNC's in garbage mode. Any of
> these can cause it.
>
> There weren't any changes to the decoding of packets made to Xastir
> lately, so it's unlikely (but of course still possible) that Xastir
> is directly causing it.
>
> Watch the incoming packet window and look for corruption there. See
> if callsigns are getting corrupted on the map screen.
>
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