[Xastir] When your only tool is a hammer- using linux to send aprs packets

[Lee Bengston]

On 3/7/10, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Chris wrote:
>
>> A bash wrapper around beacon that also starts axlisten for the purpose
>> of doing UI mode 'chatting'.
>>
>> It prompts for what to send the UI 'to' and what digi to use.
>>
>> I've used it to send APRS msg traffic, I just haven't gotten around to
>> an even dirtier version to look for the proper msg number ID and to
>> ack those yet.
>
> If/when you do, consider adding the extra messaging protocols
> (REPLY-ACK for one) that are listed in the APRS spec addendums.
> They really make messaging fly if both ends implement them.
>
> Makes me wonder how hard it would be to create a Perl text-mode app
> just to do APRS messaging.  That might be kind'a fun!

Overall, a very interesting thread.

For anyone like me who was wondering what the "beacon" command was a part of...

~$ beacon --help
The program 'beacon' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install ax25-tools

Now that was easy :-)

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX