[Xastir] Help with TH-D72

[Harry Bloomberg]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:43 PM, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Kai Gunter Brandt
> <kai.brandt at cih.uib.no> wrote:
>
> > If you turn off the TNC and APRS mode you are receiving the GPS data.
>
> Are you saying that you have GPS data appearing on the com port when
> the TNC is turned off? What settings are you using to see that? I'm
> not seeing anything in that mode.
>
> This makes no sense to me either but I'm seeing something similar with my
TH-D72!  When the HT is in APRS or non-digital mode (no D on display), I'm
seeing *lots* of GPS data.  But when the rig is in Packet mode, I see no GPS
data.

Unfortunately there's not a lot of APRS activity in Pittsburgh right now,
but it looks like in APRS mode, GPS data and incoming packets are passed
through the USB port to minicom.  So perhaps when connecting to Xastir, I
should have the rig in APRS mode.

I find this all counterintuitive, but this is what I'm observing on my
TH-D72.

It's late, I'll continue the testing tomorrow night.  But, thanks for the
tip, this is a bit of a breakthrough for me.

73,
Harry Bloomberg W3YJ
hbloomb at gmail.com