[Xastir] No stations

[Brett Friermood]

Comments below.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Clay Jackson <n7qnm-lists at nwlink.com> wrote:
> Well, since I LIKE all the firenet stuff, it works for me.  Changed my
> filter to f/PROSSR/100; and I'm now seeing everything I expected.

Right, that's the whole point of firenet. If someone like David were
to not want information such as that, then that's what the regular IS
is for.

> For folks who haven't tried it aprx is a pretty decent digi/igate - among
> other things, it has a "viscous-delay" feature that waits a specified number
> of seconds (5 is default) before it digis/igates a report, just in case
> someone ELSE got it first,  Around here (rural E WA), it doesn't matter so
> much, but I can see where that would be a great feature in a crowded
> environment.   I'm actually amazed at the number of stations I'm igating and
> their distance from me - all the way from Baker City, OR, well over 100
> miles.

Bruninga will strongly disagree with you about whether that is
acceptable practice on the National APRS Net (not having all
digipeaters "fire at once" immediately after hearing a packet), but I
would agree with you that it could be a useful feature.

Brett KQ9N

>
> Clay
> N7QNM
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org
> [mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Lynn W. Deffenbaugh
> (Mr)
> Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 1:46 PM
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] No stations
>
> So, what you're clarifying is that you originally meant to say:
>
>> If you want*ONLY*  local APRS-IS traffic AND weather alerts via
>> Internet,
>
> And in that case, you better not give the m/ filter to the Firenet
> connection.
>
> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
>
>
>
> On 3/6/2014 4:08 PM, David Flood wrote:
>> It is true if all you want are houses, cars, the occasional obnoxious
>> object, and weather alerts.  Unless you have a filter string that is
>> so long it isn't funny.
>>
>> Now, if you want all the extra stuff that firenet carries, then yes, a
>> single connection is all that is needed.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org
>> [mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Lynn W.
>> Deffenbaugh
>> (Mr)
>>
>> On 3/6/2014 1:32 PM, David Flood wrote:
>>> If you want local APRS-IS traffic AND weather alerts via Internet,
>>> you have to set up two Internet connections, one for the regular
>>> APRS-IS
>>> (stations) and one for Firenet (Weather).
>> That is decidedly not true.  Firenet gets a full feed of everything on
>> the APRS-IS as well as it's own local stuff.  Firenet has the superset
>> and is the only connection you need for this type of operation.
>>
>>
>>
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