[Xastir] x_spider server

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:58:09PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <godfreja at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 May 2010, Jason Godfrey wrote:
> >
> >> Is my diagnosis correct? If so is there a way to get xastir to treat
> >> them as it's own objects?
> >
> > Send them from your Xastir station's callsign-ssid. ?I think that
> > will make Xastir take them over but you'll have to check to see if
> > it keeps retransmitting them at its own rate after that.
> 
> I was actually doing that. (I had my callsign set to an appropriate
> name for the event and had my FCC callsign in the comment.) I also
> tried using my FCC callsign.

I do this throwing of objects from an external program into Xastir's UDP
server port routinely, and it does work as Curt describes.  

Make sure Xastir and your injected objects are both using exactly the
same callsign and SSID, and Xastir should adopt the object.  It should
show up in the "Own Objects&Items" list, and Xastir *will* retransmit them
according to its decaying algorithm.

If it's not doing so for you, there could be some mismatch between the
callsign/ssid, OR perhaps you're not giving the right callpass?

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