[Xastir] Useful without TNC/tracker?

[Jason KG4WSV]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
<ldeffenb at homeside.to> wrote:
> Did you set up any filters?  Without filters, APRS-IS won't send you
> anything at all except the periodic heartbeat comments.

Sorry Lynn, but that's wrong.  Without any filters, APRS-IS sends you
the full unfiltered global feed.

Hans, you must authenticate to receive data from APRS-IS, which means
you must supply a callsign and corresponding passcode.  xastir has a
tool to generate your passcode from your callsign  Just run "callpass
BX2ABT" and it will generate the passcode which you then enter on the
APRS-IS server configuration dialog.

-Jason
kg4wsv