[Xastir] Weather station type

[Dean Groe]

Well, it only took me seven months to get upgraded to Xastir v2.x on the home station....   

I figured that I would rattle this chain again.  
If you have a really great memory, you will recall that I was wondering why Xastir was not passing on my WxStation type, and what could easily be done about it.  In my case it is a Davis Vantage Pro, but I wonder if Xastir properly sends any WxStation types.  

Just a few minutes ago, db2APRSgenerated the following string;
_0727181800c243s006g010t084r000p000P000h70b10151xDvs

Then shortly afterward, Xastir announced the following to the world, via my station;   
KD4TWJ>APX201,TCPIP*,qAC,T2ZUG:=2833.40N/08114.24W_243/006g010t084r000P000p000h70b10151 

Notice the xDvs at the end of the db2APRS string.  It appears that db2APRSis doing it's part.  

Any ideas?  

Thanks


Dean KD4TWJ  
    


----- Original Message -----
> From: Dean <warpedspeed1 at yahoo.com>
> To: xastir at lists.xastir.org
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> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 12:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Weather station type
> 
> As you may have noticed, my Wx station is still at 1.9.8 .  
> It would be cool if the Station Type was added when I do the 2.x update, but not 
> a big deal.
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> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:51:20 -0800 (PST)
> From: clayj at nwlink.com
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> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Weather station type
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> So - between fighting crowds trying to get a dead UPS returned and some
> other issues like DB2APRS crashing; I didn't really get too much into
> things last nite - I DID verify that DB2APRS IS appending 'xDvs' to the
> APRS string; so, it will take a mod in Xastir to make this happen.
> 
> I would think we'd want this to be a "user selectable" thing; and 
> also
> make sure it ONLY happened on non-compressed weather report strings.  
> Let's see what I get to over the weekend.
> 
> Clay
> N7QNM
>