[Xastir] Fwd: help

[Steve Rogers]

I did indeed read the manual and edit the file but came to an impasse, I was refering to Tom's point about being careful flooding the airwaves and frying my radio. Thanks for the suggestion, I have read lsped website and will do some experiments while I learn more about linux. Besides I also feel Xastir is hard to beat as an APRS program! thx Steve kd5mkv

> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:37:46 -0500
> From: lee.bengston at gmail.com
> To: xastir at lists.xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Fwd: help
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Are you referring to the aprx manual?  Software like aprx (or aprsg,
> ldsped, etc.) is not everyone's cup of tea - mainly involves editing a
> text configuration file to set things up.  That's kind of the bread
> and butter of the Linux world, though.
> 
> Based on Tom's input that Xastir will gate messages from IS to RF,
> which is the desired behavior, I'm not sure why in previous posts the
> developers seem to discourage using Xastir as an IGate.  Below is a
> quote from that message.
> 
>   > INET->RF only gates to RF messages that are directed from a station heard
>   > by your igate only on APRS-IS to a station that your igate has heard on RF.
> 
> As far as I know Xastir gates RF to IS fine, and if it does the above,
> then I'm not sure why it's reported as being so limited as an IGate
> that people should use something else such as JavAPRSIGate.  Based on
> the recommendation to use something else, I first used aprx - got it
> sharing the TNC with Xastir via AX25.  Then I added ldsped, which was
> cool because it let me share the TNC with apps on other computers on
> the wireless network.  Next I added APRSIS32 under Wine, and most
> recently I shut aprx down and let APRSIS32 be the IGate. It's ldsped
> that brings TNC sharing to the table with APRSIS32 in Linux.  It's fun
> having the capability to run Xastir and APRSIS32 side by side on the
> same machine with both having access to the same TNC.  I've thought
> about trying out JavAPRSIGate, but I'm not sure what makes it better
> than Xastir (or APRSIS32) as an IGate.
> 
> Lee - K5DAT
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Steve Rogers <kd5mkv at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Lee, I  have read it and still cannot make much sense of it, I tried to configure but have given up.
> > This time of year the aprs stations come down from the cold and traffic is moderate. I thought it over after Tom's input
> > I don't feel like I have the expertise or anymore time to dedicate to an I gate.  Also gave up on javAPRSSrvr since rxtx var/lock errors don't allow xastir to share the ax25tnc port. I stay with what I know (little)  haha ! Steve kd5mkv
> >
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