[Xastir] What is very large rectangle with X in center on station?

Fri Feb 21 13:25:05 PST 2020

The way things are going I'll be managing my own mail server again shortly;
more on that when I suddenly get free time.

I'm guessing the Government is down on either Berkeley or California in
general and thus NOAA filtered it out?

gerry

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 2:46 PM Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> Beezaar.  It is rare for me to see xastir mailing list stuff filtered out,
> but
> then again it's coming in through a mail server that I manage and
> configured.
>
> With Bill's email coming from Berkeley, I'm surprised its getting caught
> in spam filters.  My "spamassassin" filters did say that there were
> potential
> issues, but they were so low and compensated by other good things
> (like "RCVD_IN_DNSWL" (a whitelist)) that the spam score was still "not
> spam."
>
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID,
>         DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,
>         RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no
>         version=3.4.4
>
> Perhaps gmail's filters weight "DKIM INVALID" more, or the fact that it
> went
> through yahoo first rather than berkeley ("HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS")?
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 02:13:26PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <gerry.creager at noaa.gov> flavor, containing:
> > I never saw Bill's original post, either. And Xastir posts have priority
> in
> > my work email config!
> >
> > gc
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:28 AM David A Aitcheson <
> > david.aitcheson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Curt,
> > >
> > > I also saw Tom's response first. I looked in my spam folder on Gmail;
> > > the original and another Xastir related message from Bill had been
> > > flagged as spam.
> > >
> > > I have noticed this as a trend ever since Microsoft bought up Github...
> > > makes me wonder.
> > >
> > > 73
> > > Dave
> > > KB3EFS
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2/21/20 12:21 PM, Curt Mills wrote:
> > > > I didn't see the original message come across the list, only Tom's
> > > response.
> > > >
> > > > You can turn off display of such rectangles here:
> > > >
> > > > Station -> Filter Display -> Display Position Ambiguity
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 8:08 AM Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> > > >> It's a station transmitting with position ambiguity (truncated
> precision
> > > >> position).  The box represents the range of positions that the
> station
> > > could
> > > >> be in given the limited amount of data it transmitted.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> http://blog.aprs.fi/2011/01/position-ambiguity-support.html
> > > >>
> > > >> http://www.aprs.org/symbols.html
> > > >>   (APRSdos used circles for ambiguity)
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:05:16AM -0600, we recorded a
> bogon-computron
> > > collision of the <billbird at cal.berkeley.edu> flavor, containing:
> > > >>> Hi,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> In the St. Louis, MO area I see from time to time on my Xastir map
> (rf
> > > only)
> > > >>> a very large rectangle (more than 50 miles in North/South
> direction)
> > > with an
> > > >>> X on the station AC0MW-7.?? The X goes from corner to corner of the
> > > >>> rectangle.?? The X and the rectangle are made of dashes.?? I have
> been
> > > using
> > > >>> APRS since APRSdos and continue to enjoy it.?? The current Xastir
> map
> > > is
> > > >>> shown on my website, www.billbird.com.?? I've tried to discover the
> > > answer
> > > >>> on my own but have not been able to.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Thanks and 73,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Bill Bird
> > > >>> KG0YJ
> > > >>> _______________________________________________
> > > >>> Xastir mailing list
> > > >>> Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> > > >>> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
> > > >> --
> > > >> 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]
> > > >>
> > > >> _______________________________________________
> > > >> Xastir mailing list
> > > >> Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> > > >> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Xastir mailing list
> > > Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Gerry Creager
> > NSSL/CIMMS
> > 405.325.6371
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > *The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.*
> > *   Walt Disney*
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
>
> --
> 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]
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xastir mailing list
> Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
>

-- 
Gerry Creager
NSSL/CIMMS
405.325.6371
++++++++++++++++++++++
*The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.*
*   Walt Disney*