[Xastir] Suggestion

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:

> You can also tag a !Shriek! on individual stations via a Nickname comment to 
> establish a group, restrict the View to just that !Shriek! and then Auto-Zoom 
> the window to keep all viewed stations in ... well ... view.  It amounts to 
> tracking multiple stations in a single window without inventing a UI just to 
> specify the group.
>
> !Shriek!s are my extension of the !SN! used by The Spotter Network to "group" 
> their APRS users.  !Shriek!s can be assigned by a station directly in their 
> own comment (like !SN!) or can be defined via nickname (similar to a TACTICAL 
> assignment) at the local viewer.
>
> See also the Shrieks entry at http://aprsisce.wikidot.com/menu:view for more 
> details.

Cool feature!

For Xastir we can assign Tactical calls to stations (locally or can transmit them out to others), which I do during public service events a lot, then set Xastir to only show tactical calls.  This is nice to get rid of the other stations in the map view that are not part of the event.  Unfortunately map zooming/panning is manual, but for any particular event I usually set up the one view to cover the whole area, then start up another Xastir, fed from the first, that I can use to zoom in on individual stations.  It would be much nicer if I could do all of this (and more) with one Xastir instance.

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