[Xastir] Advertising multiple objects with Xastir or Linux beacon?

Tom Russo russo at bogodyn.org
Sat May 19 20:09:46 EDT 2012


On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 04:57:41PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <xastir at trinnet.net> flavor, containing:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Is there an easy way to advertise mulitple APRS objects other than just 
> my callsign with Xastir?  If not, I think this can be done with multiple 
> instances of Linux's "beacon" program but if anyone has some example 
> hints of URLs on how to craft the required string to encode the object 
> name, position, etc. I'd appreciate it!

Yes, you simply use the right-click menu "Object/Item->Create" item.
You can create as many as you need to.



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