[Xastir] Kantronics DiGi help

Wed Nov 28 07:56:49 PST 2018

I've noticed a lot of people these days only do/recognize top-posting, so I'm going against my better nature and top-posting this comment.

1) Which "author" are you talking about? We have many developers (16 at last count), plus a whole lot of users who answer questions on the mailing list. If a non-developer answers a question so much the better! Many users know a whole lot more about using the program than some developers do plus it frees up developer time for other activities.

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On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, Steve Rogers wrote:

> Believe David Ranch answered your message and broke down your errors on kpc3+
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> From: Xastir <xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org> on behalf of MJ Inabnit <ke6sls at arrl.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 12:23 AM
> To: xastir at lists.xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Kantronics DiGi help
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> Why hasn't the author replied? This is VERY important info for newbies
> LIKE ME!
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> Thanks for the assist. I'll keep this email as a reference as I plug
> along on our diginodes.
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> 73
> j
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> On 11/26/18 8:50 AM, David Ranch wrote:
>>
>> Hello Danny,
>>
>>
>>> I am helping a friend of mine EX0CK from Kyrgistan setup an iGate
>>> (EX0CK-1 with a Kantronics KPC-3 v8.2) which seems to be working well
>>> with Xastir, or at least it is beaconing and is visible on
>>> www.aprs.fi. However, we are trying to also setup a DiGiPeater in the
>>> same area (EX0CK-10 with a Kantronics KPC-3+ v9.1 ) just as a
>>> digipeater for a project we are working on. The KPC-3+ is standalone
>>> and is not interfaced with any software. We want EX0CK-1 (KPC-3
>>> connected to Xastir) to be an iGate and EX0CK-10 (KPC-3+) to be a
>>> digipeater only.
>>
>> For the EC0CK-1 digi, what paths do you want it to support?  WIDE1-1
>> only?  WIDE2-1 and WIDE1-1 only?
>>
>> Next, can you send us a copy of the packet string that the EX0CK-10 is
>> beaconing out that you're hoping to see on APRS.FI (via EX0CK-1)?  You
>> can use various tools to inspect your string to make sure it's ok such as:
>>
>>    #example from
>> https://aprs-python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/parse_formats.html
>>    #
>>    sudo pip install aprslib
>>    python
>>    import aprslib
>>    aprslib.parse("FROMCALL>TOCALL:!4903.50N/07201.75W-Test /A=001234")
>>    quit ()
>>
>>
>>
>>> ###### EX0CK-10 Standalone digi (KPC-3+)###################
>>>
>> . . .
>>> LTP
>>> 1 APN382 VIA WIDE2-2
>>> 2 APN382
>>> 3 APN382
>>> 4 APN382
>>
>> These look wrong as I would expect this to be "APN391" for your KPC3+
>> v9.1 TNC.  Seems you mistakenly cut and pasted from a different TNC.
>>
>>
>>> MYCALL   EX0CK-1 0
>>
>> Why is there a space in there?   You should read the recommended APRS
>> configuration setup from WB4APR -
>> http://www.aprs.org/kpc3/kpc3+WIDEn.txt .  Specifically, you ideally put
>> a LOCATION name in there like "BISHKEK"
>>
>>
>>
>>> MYALIAS  WIDE1-1
>>
>> This is wrong.  Per the above URL, set this to something useless like NONE
>>
>>
>>> MYDROP   0
>>> MYNODE   EX0CK-1 0
>>
>> Why is there a space in here as well?
>>
>>
>>> PACLEN   0
>>
>> Not sure why you overrode the default of 128 bytes here though I don't
>> think it will hurt you
>>
>>
>>> TXDELAY  18
>>
>> Are you sure this is enough time for your radio to key up?  Until you
>> get things working 100%, I would recommend to set this to something
>> conservative like 30  (aka.. 300ms)
>>
>>
>>> UIDIGI   ON WIDE1-1
>>
>> Are you sure you don't want to support WIDE2-1 as well?
>>
>> --David
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