[Xastir] x_spider server
Tom Russo
russo at bogodyn.org
Wed May 26 00:57:21 EDT 2010
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:51:20PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <godfreja at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> >
> > Is this the exact string you're sending? ?If so, it's not the right format.
> >
> > It should be this:
> >
> > N0RPM>xxxxxx;Pickup ? *260424z4511.60N/09252.88WA
> >
> > where xxxxxx is a string representing the software you're using to generate
> > the object. ?Try something like APZRPM (APZ is the prefix for experimental
> > programs). ?Avoid existing TOCALLS (see http://www.aprs.org/tocalls.txt).
> >
> > Without the "N0RPM>" and the following TOCALL, Xastir isn't parsing the
> > thing as an AX.25 frame --- that's why it simply exits with no further
> > output after the "start parsing" line.
>
> That did it! (Except I had to add a ":" after the TOCALL). I had
> assumed that portion was added by xastir. Thanks for your help.
Argh. Yeah, sorry about leaving out the colon. That's in my own program, but
I got hasty in typing the "corrected" line. Sigh.
The stuff coming in from the UDP port is treated just as if it had come
from a TNC --- it's gotta be in the same TNC2 format as any other packet,
including the From and To calls.
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