[Xastir] Xastir with DRAWS

[Michael]

I fail to understand why it is so blasted hard to get an answer on 
anything on ham radio related forums. Why do people feel necessary to 
give information totally irrelevant to the question? Why can't people 
simply accept my question as it is, not tell me what my question should be?

I am trying to make a decision on buying a DRAWS Hat for the 
RaspberryPi. I want to run various digital modes/applications including 
MT63/PSK31/etc. with fldigi and APRS with Xastir.

My question seeks user experiences with these apps and DRAWS. Please 
attempt to limit responses to that question.

Thanks,
Michael WA7SKG


David Ranch wrote on 12/8/18 11:53:
> 
> NW Digital's DRAWS HAT boards is just a dual-channel soundcard with some 
> PTT circuitry and a GPS.  There isn't anything really magical there 
> beyond  very nice integration on one PCB for people who don't want to 
> cobble something together themselves.  It also offers a good set of 
> documentation and potentially offers more than just community support to 
> get you going.
> 
> Your question probably should be more like:
> 
>     Is anyone using a souncard TNC like Direwolf, Tom Sailer's 
> Soundmodem, etc. with Xastir vs TNC-Pi
> 
> 
> I'm using Direwolf on an Rpi with a Syba USB sound device and it works 
> very well.  It's TNC is generally able to dig out packet decodes that 
> most PIC-based TNCs (like the TNC-X, TNC-Pi, etc) cannot.  The new 
> TNC-Pi9k6 could be a different animal as it has a lot more CPU power but 
> I haven't heard of any real decode comparisons yet.
> 
> The older Direwolf documentation used to have a comprehensive comparison 
> table against other TNCs in the "10.1 WA8LMF TNC Test CD" section but 
> newer versions dropped it.  Here is an example of it from the Direwolf 
> 1.3 docs.  Overall, Direwolf's decode performance has only gotten BETTER 
> since then:
> 
> https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/a7391b49998d0b759a89d3329a5b88f4cdf92936/doc/User-Guide.pdf 
> 
> 
> 
> --David
> KI6ZHD
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/08/2018 10:55 AM, Michael wrote:
>> Is anybody using Xastir with DRAWS on a RasberryPi? What is your 
>> experience? Good, bad, indifferent? Compared to other modems like the 
>> TNC-Pi?
>>
>> tnx es 73,
>>
>> Michael WA7SKG