[Xastir] Yaesu APRS radios to be used as an RX-only Igate

[Kurt]

Why not simply ditch the Yaesu radios. They never got aprs right. The vx-8gr at least allow the waypoints to be pulled off the port using the same cable that is used for the Kenwood D7 series and pipe the strings to an aprs program. One still did not have full access to the TNC but could still get a spatial orientation on a map.

Kurt KC9LDH
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On Fri, 6/8/18, David Ranch <xastir at trinnet.net> wrote:

 Subject: [Xastir] Yaesu APRS radios to be used as an RX-only Igate
 To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at xastir.org>
 Date: Friday, June 8, 2018, 12:44 PM
 
 
 Hello Xastir users,
 
 I saw this today on the APRSDroid group
 and thought it would be worth 
 passing on.  APRS-enabled Yaesu
 radios have always been limited in the 
 fashion that you cannot access the TNC
 say like how you can with a 
 Kenwood radio.  One feature they
 do have is to send the APRS data stream 
 to the serial port.  This
 developer wrote a program to parse that data 
 and send the relevant data to
 APRS-IS.   I wonder if a similar feature 
 could be added to Xastir?
 
     https://github.com/craigerl/ygate/
 
 --David
 KI6ZHD
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