[Xastir] TH-D72A with Internal GPS working with Xastir

[John Goerzen]

If you watch the output from the D72A in minicom or some other serial 
program, you'll see lines that look various ways.

APRS packets will have CALL>DEST sort of appearance.

GPS packets will start with $GPS

It's a real GPS packet, not an APRS packet, and Xastir does the right 
thing with it as far as I can tell.

-- John


On 03/19/2012 02:23 PM, Kurt Savegnago wrote:
> Sooooooooooo,
>
>    Does this mean that someone else has been able to confirm this?
> The problem I had with the D7A(g) operating in that fashion is that even
> though the GPS position was passed through to Xastir, Xastir treated it
> as "just another station".  If one can get Xastir to look at that data as
> the location of "your" station, I can see some use to it.
>    I couldn't quite figure out how to reassign that data stream to my stations position.  I also noted a random assignment to the icon and the positions end up coming in under the "incoming data" field.
>    I said the above was with the D7A(g).  Is that the way it behaves with the D72?  If so, I don't see where that would be of any help.  If setting it up as a serial TNC with a GPS on an AUX port corrects that.  I'm in luck! :-)
>
>                                 Kurt KC9LDH
>
> --- On Sat, 3/17/12, John Goerzen<jgoerzen at complete.org>  wrote:
>
>> From: John Goerzen<jgoerzen at complete.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Xastir] TH-D72A with Internal GPS working with Xastir
>> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion"<xastir at lists.xastir.org>
>> Date: Saturday, March 17, 2012, 8:53 PM
>>
>> On 03/17/2012 07:43 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
>>> Just a suggestion for the wiki referenced above - it
>> doesn't say which
>>> type of interface to create in Xastir.
>> Good point - I have corrected it to mention Serial TNC with
>> GPS on Aux port.
>>
>> -- John
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