[Xastir] Blocking a callsign?

[Kevin Ratcliff]

On Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 at 15:23, Steve Huston <huston at srhuston.net> wrote:
> There's someone local to me who has started spamming bulletins, and
> while the "right thing" might be to ask them to knock it off I don't
> feel like being confrontational and am happier to just add them to my
> killfile. I've used a '-b/CALL*' prefix on my aprs-is connection, but
> some of the packets seem to come in over RF and will still be showing
> up; is there a simple way to get Xastir to ignore packets in some way?
> I think the answer is no but wanted to ask Greater Minds before I
> give up and resign myself to putting the APRS system's display to
> sleep every five minutes when they send another one.

How are you connecting xastir to RF? You may have the option of blocking the callsign before it ever reaches xastir. But this will depend entirely on your connection type.

Kevin
KB9MQU