[Xastir] Xastir and the TH-D72 on OSX Mac

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:03:46PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <ve6srv at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 
> > It also works with the D700 so long as you have a "GPSTEXT" command in the
> > startup file to tell the TNC to send periodic NMEA sentences of that type.
> > I don't know that the radio is caring about the control-E in
> > this case --- it may just stream the NMEA data regardless, and Xastir is
> > just OK with that because the NMEA and APRS data are both expected on that
> > port, unlike a plain Serial TNC interface.
> 
> The Kenwoods fire GPS data all the time, no Ctrl-E needed.

That's pretty much what I thought.  But unless you've got "Serial TNC with
GPS on AUX port" chosen, Xastir isn't expecting to see the NMEA data on the 
port, I think.  At least, that's what I've always thought to be the case.
I run my D700 through Xastir using that sort of interface for that reason.

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