[Xastir] Display Questions

Wed Oct 6 15:13:45 EDT 2010

What type of maps are you using? I doubt that would make a difference but
you never know....

- Jason

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Tom <tom at deserres.net> wrote:

>  I'm getting good data coming in. Mine looks a lot like yours. However,
> when I go to view > mobile stations, I found my radio in my car which is on.
> When I click on it, nothing shows up on the map. If I click on a Houston
> station, (I'm in Austin), the map will go to Houston but no stations show
> up. I'm getting all of my data of the net right now because I can't get an
> anteena outside right at the moment.
>
>
>
> On 10/5/10 9:08 PM, Jason Godfrey wrote:
>
>> Here is a check to make sure xastir is actually getting understandable
>> data
>> from your TNC. Go to "View" and choose "Incoming Data". You should see a
>> bunch of lines with packets appearing. Mine shows (coming from an internet
>> connection):
>>
>>  2:NET->  WA0FW-10>APU25N,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:=4500.33N/09330.64W-!SN!
>> WA0FW at Comcast.net {UIV32N}
>>  2:NET->  N0NAS-11>APN383,qAR,KC0TAF:!4556.65NS09424.00W#PHG6340 W3,MNn
>> 147135p123LittleFalls www.14567.org
>>  2:NET->
>>
>> N0BHC>APW280,RELAY2-2,qAR,KD0GQX-10:_10060256c130s000g000t062r000p000P000h39b10197wWXD
>>  2:NET->  AC0FO-10>T6TT1Y,PRKPNT*,WIDE2-1,qAS,K0DMF-10:'x&9l  #/]
>>  2:NET->  W9NNS-8>APNU19,qAS,K0DMF-10:!4541.37NS09120.49W# /W9NNS-8 W3,WIn
>> METEOR HILL, WI UIDIGI 1.9B3
>>
>>
>> If you don't see anything or see complete garbage then something isn't
>> right
>> between xastir and the TNC. (If you are seeing stations you should also
>> see
>> announcements for new stations flash on the lower left of the screen.) If
>> you are seeing stations, then it is likely a display issue. Knowing which
>> will point us in the right direction.
>>
>> Since you are on a Mac and I mentioned the "All Stations" menu item
>> before-
>> depending on when the source code you grabbed is from xastir could crash
>> when you close the stations window on a Mac. If that happens you will have
>> to run "killall xastir" on the command line before you start up again or
>> you
>> will see odd behavior. (The fix was checked in on 21st, and it looks like
>> the source package on sourceforge is from the 16th, so it is likely you
>> don't have the fix.)
>>
>> - Jason, N0RPM
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Nikita Bogdanov
>> <nikita_bogdanov at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>
>>  I am fairly sure that my TNC is working correctly (since on almost every
>>> rx
>>> I
>>> see a little red arrow flash on the bottom of the screen, far left of the
>>> information boxes) however I do can't seem to get any data up on the map.
>>> I
>>> have
>>> tried to change the bps to make sure that that was not the problem, but
>>> still no
>>> luck. I am using an OpenTracker+ with the KISS firmware, and the Serial
>>> KISS tnc
>>> interface.
>>>
>>> I have checked the Filter Data, and all seems fine as well. Any help
>>> would
>>> be
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> Nikita, KF5EFR
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Jason Godfrey<godfreja at gmail.com>
>>> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion<xastir at lists.xastir.org>
>>> Sent: Tue, October 5, 2010 2:59:23 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Display Questions
>>>
>>> Another thing you could try is pulling up the station list and clicking
>>> (or
>>> may double clicking, I forget) on the icon next to a station. That should
>>> center the maps on that station so you can see if you were just in the
>>> wrong
>>> area.
>>>
>>> - Jason
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Curt, WE7U<curt.we7u at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Tom wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  So now that I am receiving all sorts of traffic. How do I get it to
>>>> show
>>>>
>>>>> up on the map?
>>>>>
>>>>>  Run through the options on
>>>>
>>>>    Station->Filter Data
>>>> and
>>>>    Station->Filter Display
>>>>
>>>> to make sure you didn't disable something important by mistake.
>>>> Some are enables, some are disables.
>>>>
>>>> Note that you can click on the dashed line on those dialogs to make
>>>> them stay around a while so you can enable/disable multiple items.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Curt, WE7U.
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>>>> http://www.eskimo.com/%7Earcher>
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