[Xastir] Need help trying to reproduce bug report

[David Lane]

Forwarded to the PWCARES cadre. We have a number of folks running Xastir (including me). Hopefully someone can verify it.  

Cheers,

David
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> On Jun 2, 2018, at 12:37 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 
> We just got a bug report submitted on github:
> 
> https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/37
> 
> The claim is that Xastir is repeatedly retransmitting messages over
> RF that have already been acked via the APRS-IS.
> 
> I have never observed this behavior, and am trying to reproduce it.  Much to
> my disappointment, of all the APRS stations in my local area not one has
> messaging capability --- I can transmit messages to my heart's content and
> never get an ack from any of them.  They're all either running one-way
> trackers or are just unattended info reporting stations (e.g. weather
> stations and one-way igates).  Even the D700s I see moving around aren't 
> acking messages (this is possibly an issue caused by the one-way igates...).  
> But that's another lament.
> 
> I've also tried sending messages to a station far out of the area (actually, 
> to Curt), his station immediately ACKS me, I receive the acks over APRS-IS, and that ends my retransmissions over all interfaces once and for all.
> 
> Since I cannot even reproduce getting an ACK on RF in my local area, it'll
> be hard even to see if there's a real bug here.
> 
> Can anyone else check out the bug report and see if they can reproduce
> the behavior reported?  
> 
> -- 
> Tom Russo    KM5VY
> Tijeras, NM  
> 
> echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m]
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