[Xastir] PHG or status text with weather?

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:53:50PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:37:04PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <aa9vi at yahoo.com> flavor, containing:
> 
> You could always have a script that periodically injects a posit without 
> weather and with PHG+status into Xastir's UDP port, and that might be a good 
> work-around in the meantime.  I know that Xastir will transmit OBJECTS that it 
> receives on its UDP port with the same "From" callsign as its own, but I'm not 
> sure it will do so with ordinary posits.  

No, if you try to inject a packet representing an actual station posit Xastir
will not automatically beacon it as its own.  But you CAN force it through
as a third-party packet that seems to work fine.  Here's what I just did:

Make sure to enable "server ports" in Xastir.
Run the following command:
xastir_udp_client localhost 2023 -to_rf (yourcall) (yourcallpass) "(yourcall)>APX201,WIDE2-2:=DDMM.mmN/DDDMM.mmW-PHG2400Spider Test"

where, obviously, you replace (yourcall) with your callsign/ssid and 
(yourcallpass) with your APRS-IS passcode (run "callpass (yourcallsign)" to 
get it).  Also, change the "DDMM.mm" latitude and DDDMM.mm longitude to 
your own latitude and longitude, of course.

This creates a packet, quite unrelated to your own weather packet, but with 
PHG in it.  Use the same lat/lon as your weather station, and receiving 
stations should see your PHG and status.

Make a shell script to run that command every 20 mins or so, and it should
be almost as good as having it built-in.
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#!/bin/sh
while [ true ]
do
  xastir_udp_client localhost 2023 (yourcall) (yourcallpass) "(yourcall)>APX201,WIDE2-2:=DDMM.mmN/DDDMM.W-PHG2400This is my periodic status."
  sleep 1200
done
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