[Xastir] PHG or status text with weather?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Tom Russo wrote:

> 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.

You could also set up Xastir on an AX.25 port and call the "beacon" command from cron to send out those additional packets using the same port.

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