[Xastir] I-Gate setup

[David]

Hi Chris.....i have moved from the outer suburbs of Townsville (Black River)
into a more central are of the city to the suburb of Kirwan
this was done for health reasons....1.3 acres is too much to look after 
and we need to shops.hospital,doctors etc

im back on air with JT56 but im very limited for antenna space...no room for
hexbeam or dipole... have a S9V18 by LDG for 20m to 6m in the air works 
quite well if prop is reasonable.

73 David VK4BDJ





On 12/06/14 10:25, Chris Matthews N9JCA wrote:
> I have been using the IGATE setup that comes with Xastir both mobile 
> and at home
> never had any problems; only problem I have is when I set radius for 
> 500+miles there is a station that is setup 24/7 with an Emergency 
> beacon kinda frustrating at times
>
> BTW Dave have you moved from Queensland?
>
> 73 Chris N9JCA EM68fb
>
> "I am always doing that which I CANNOT do;
> in order that I may LEARN how to do it"
>
> On 06/11/2014 03:37 PM, David wrote:
>> Hi Lee.....thanks...
>> i have had Xastir set up as you say for a long time BUT have never 
>> seen it work as an I-gate in the way aprsg is at the present time.....
>> i know it should work and have tried to find out why not but i havent
>> got too much hair to keep pulling it out HI HI
>>
>> 73 David  VK4BDJ
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/06/14 00:43, Lee Bengston wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> In Xastir, under File-Configure-Defaults in the menu, there is a 
>>> section
>>> labeled IGate Options.  Check the box that says "Allow RF to Inet 
>>> and Inet
>>> to RF traffic", and click OK.  Then under Interface-Interface 
>>> Control in
>>> the menu, select your AX25 interface and click the Properties 
>>> button.  The
>>> same Igate options that are in the defaults menu are there. Check 
>>> the same
>>> box for RF to Inet and Inet to RF, and click OK.  In the Inet to RF
>>> direction, this will gate only messages.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Lee - K5DAT
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:07 AM, David <djmunn at bigpond.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Lee...i should have mentioned im using a AX25 tnc port as set 
>>>> out in
>>>> the HowTo:AX25 on the Xastir wiki
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/06/14 13:56, David wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Lee. i bow to your superior knowledge
>>>>>
>>>>> i have aprsg running on Ubuntu 14.04 .....i have config it to do 
>>>>> the same
>>>>> as our other local I-gate which is off the air at this time..using 
>>>>> FT-2800
>>>>> to TNC-X
>>>>>
>>>>> it takes messages from APRS-IS and TX to the local APRS repeater....
>>>>> the incoming Igate area is limited to 1300 kms so that i dont 
>>>>> flood the
>>>>> repeater with too much signals.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have heard that Xastir can IGATE but have only seen how to 
>>>>> configure it
>>>>> as a Digipeater...how can Xastir be set up to do what im doing 
>>>>> with aprsg
>>>>>
>>>>> 73 David VK4BDJ
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/06/14 12:29, Lee Bengston wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:16 PM, David <djmunn at bigpond.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Hi.....agree that update would be good
>>>>>>> ability to have an included igate that can be configured
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> to my knowledge linux only has 3 igate programs worth looking at
>>>>>>> aprsg,aprx2,dixprs....the only one ive got working is 
>>>>>>> aprsg....the other
>>>>>>> two i cant get to work with a AX25 port and a TNC-x...at least i 
>>>>>>> havent
>>>>>>> got
>>>>>>> the configs correct will keep trying.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ​Those are the small programs ideal for running "headless". I've 
>>>>>>> tried
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> all 3 of them - aprsg is not good as a Tx Igate because it can't be
>>>>>> limited
>>>>>> to gate only messages to RF, which is standard.  I like the 
>>>>>> format of the
>>>>>> text config file for aprsg - may have been a little easier than 
>>>>>> aprx or
>>>>>> dixprs, but I have been able to get all of them to work. Dixprs 
>>>>>> is a bit
>>>>>> tricky when you first try it with AX25 because the ax25 port is
>>>>>> referenced
>>>>>> as "ax0" or "ax1", etc. as the case may be instead of referencing 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> name
>>>>>> of the ax25 interface in /etc/ax25/axports like other software does.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In Linux, Xastir already supports Igating​, and so does YAAC.
>>>>>> JavAPRSIgate
>>>>>> also runs in Linux, which is an adjunct to javAPRSServr. Also aprsd
>>>>>> works
>>>>>> as an Igate, and APRSIS32 runs fine in wine, so Linux has a lot more
>>>>>> choices than those 3.  I understand DireWolf also can Igate, but 
>>>>>> I've not
>>>>>> tried it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lee - K5DAT
>>>>>>
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