[Xastir] Soundmodem

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 8 May 2011, Andrew Errington wrote:

> soundmodem will work in duplex mode, so it can send and receive at the same
> time.  It seems that it doesn't matter that Xastir sends my test message to
> both modems, since I can receive the test message from modem0 on modem1 even
> while modem1 is transmitting.  I suppose I could run two X sessions and run
> Xastir on each one.  I could send a message from one instance and receive it
> on the other.

You can do this w/o two X-sessions also:  See the "-c" option in Xastir.  For instance, I have:

     alias xastir2='xastir -c /home/<user>/.xastir2 &'
     alias xastir3='xastir -c /home/<user>/.xastir3 &'

in my .alias file (sourced from .profile), so I type:

     xastir2

and I'm running a 2nd instance, which has its own home directory for storing config files.  "xastir3" gives me a 3rd instance.

Replace "<user>" with your login.

To answer your earlier question:  I don't believe Soundmodem has the capability to operate two modems on different channels, but I did hear that AGWPE had that.

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