[Xastir] New script: ads-b.pl for snagging airplane positions

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

In other words, it IS easy to accidentally gate these new packets to RF 
and/or the APRS-IS?  All it takes is using the same callsign-SSID on the 
tool and xastir?

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32



On 2/25/2016 4:11 PM, Curt Mills wrote:
> I should have thought of that! If you're using the same callsign to inject
> as you're using in your Xastir instance, Xastir "adopts" those APRS Items
> as its own and starts retransmitting them. We use that to good effect in
> some instances to get Xastir to do that very thing.
>
> Switch to a different SSID for injection and that problem should go away.
> For instance WE7U-1 instead of WE7U.
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:59 PM, David Brooke G6GZH <xastir at dbrooke.me.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:56:06AM -0800, Curt Mills wrote:
>>> Again, it doesn't send ANYTHING to RF or INET unless the user
>> specifically
>>> tries to do so. The script just injects packets into Xastir itself, so
>> it's
>>> a local display.
>> I decided to try the script and at first things seemed fine but after a
>> while I noticed my rig keying up. It was sending ADS-B stuff to RF,
>> though seemingly delayed since it continued after I shut down the script
>> and so I also shut down xastir.
>>
>> Checking on aprs.fi shows that I also sent some data to APRS-IS even
>> though I don't have xastir configured as an igate (I have G6GZH-1
>> running aprx for that).  This is the first I see on aprs.fi raw log so
>> appears to be direct from my xastir and not igated elsewhere from my RF
>> transmission:
>>
>> 2016-02-25 20:30:08 UTC:
>> G6GZH>APX206,TCPIP*,qAC,T2EISBERG:)406541!5154.38N/00002.62W^320/271/A=007250
>> EZY41KD
>>
>>> However: The possibility does exist so I want to make sure it doesn't
>>> happen by mistake.
>> So I'm unsure what I might have configured in xastir to cause this if it
>> is not the expected default behaviour.
>>
>> David G6GZH
>>
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