[Xastir] Xastir iGate Setup

Jason KG4WSV kg4wsv at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 05:21:08 PDT 2018


Turn on igate logging (under file menu).  The log file is in ~/.xastir/logs.

-j


On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 8:45 PM Andrew McKay <aacmckay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting, and that makes sense that when I'm connected to a server none
> of the local igates are reporting they saw my station either.  Is there a
> way to see whether Xastir is still sending the data?  tcpdump for
> instance?  I assume the deduplication is happening at the server end.
>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 8:23 PM Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > APRS-IS has deduplication at many levels. It may be simply that the
> > packets you expect to see are also gated by other stations and yours are
> > dropped as duplicates.
> >
> > -Jason
> >
> >
> > > On Sep 7, 2018, at 8:17 PM, Andrew McKay <aacmckay at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've compiled and been running Xastir since last night. I'm able to
> > receive
> > > APRS data with my radio and have also connected to servers to receive net
> > > feeds of APRS traffic. I tried changing my TNC settings to allow RF ->
> > Inet
> > > traffic Only but I'm not seeing my station reporting any stations that
> > I've
> > > seen on aprs.fi. I also configured the internet server for TX as well.
> > When
> > > I do transmit now, my traffic is showing up on aprs.fi with a TCPIP
> > path,
> > > but no stations that I've been RXing over my radio with I look at my
> > > callsign Info
> > >
> > > Part of what I don't understand about the network side of APRS, do I need
> > > to send the inet traffic to their server specifically? Or is being
> > > configured for rotate.aprs2.net good enough for my station to report to
> > > aprs.fi?
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated!
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-Jason
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