[Xastir] APRS queries

[f1mhv]

Many thanks Jason and Tom for keeping an eye on it..

73 de Cyril - DF1CHB - F1MHV


> Le 3 avr. 2021 à 19:40, Jason Godfrey <godfreja at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Hello.
> 
> With the events that I normally use xastir for approaching, I'm not sure if
> I can get to this soon, but I will keep it in mind. I have filed issue 176
> to keep track of the request.
> 
> 73
> - Jason
> 
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 5:58 PM Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 
>> It should be possible to do this, but for Reasons there may not be anyone
>> with the time to dig through the code and do it.
>> 
>> This has definitely come up before and I looked at it briefly, but the way
>> messages are handled is a little wonky.  It *should* be possible to
>> intercept
>> them at some stage and not add the reply/ack stuff or a message number, but
>> the way it is done (by inserting the message into the incoming datastream
>> and letting the normal message processing code handle it as if it had been
>> received) is a little tricky.  I never quite spent enough time wrapping my
>> brain over the path that the data took from the dialog box to actually
>> being
>> transmitted, and so I do not have my own finger on the exact part of the
>> code that would need to be modified to recognize "hey, this is an outgoing
>> query, don't add a message number to it."  It isn't in the code that
>> directly
>> handles input from the "Send Message" dialog.  It's more like deep in the
>> bowels
>> of db.c
>> 
>> I have been frustrated by this very thing a few times, because there are
>> some
>> implementations (notably javAPRSsrv and the old Kenwood D700) that will
>> not
>> answer queries that have message numbers in them.
>> 
>> The queries that are available in the Station Info box don't have message
>> numbers, so obviously it *can* be done.
>> 
>> I can't be the one to do this, as I have no spare cycles to work on Xastir.
>> 
>> Maybe Jason or Curt do, but I think Curt is swamped, too.  If anyone else
>> would
>> like to try their hand at hacking it in and making a pull request, I'd be
>> happy to review it.
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 03:36:09PM +0200, we recorded a bogon-computron
>> collision of the <f1mhv at free.fr> flavor, containing:
>>> Hi Tom & Curt,
>>> 
>>> Could-it possible to implement the complete set of APRS queries such as
>> http://privat.bahnhof.se/wb758759//documents/APRS-Queries.pdf ?
>>> 
>>> Or more simple: to get the possibility to send them manually via the
>> message box implementing a rule that any message beginning ?? ? ?? (i-e:
>> ?APRSP) should be sent without the ack characters.
>>> 
>>> 73 de Cyril - DF1CHB - F1MHV
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> --
>> 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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