It's my understanding that a mobile beacon station operating in unfamiliar territory should set their APRS path equal to "WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1" except in very...
Hello Scott, Yes that is the beauty of using the same default mobile path nationwide. When you travel to an area you are unfamiliar with, you dont have to...
Is there some way that when a digipeater (maybe in Digi_Ned <http://www.qsl.net/digi_ned/> ?) sees a station that is using an obsolete path that it will...
Hello Scott, Yes that is the beauty of using the same default mobile path nationwide. When you travel to an area you are unfamiliar with, you dont have to...
Hello Jacob, I havent found a way for Digi_ned or any other program to do this automagically. The best that I have seen for letting stations know their...
... Otherwise translated. "It's been this way for years and I honestly don't remember how I got it this far, so why mess with it now? Fixing it requires...
I have never used Xastir in Windows, but I have run it many times in Linux. It is a great program. It did take a little getting used to (but then I am new to...
I've got it up and running now at my new job. It was very easy to get going but, just make sure you either have allot of time or a high speed connection when...
As I understand it, SSIDs once indicated a station's ID. Is there still a "loose" standard for this or has it been abandoned altogether maybe? With the...
Hey Jeff, This has been discussed quite a bit on the national aprs sig. I for one like the SSID idea. I try to use it loosely myself. I setup our local EOC...
Tnx Richard, I had wondered about the long haul truckers, because I see lot's of them with -14. That explains that. I'm going to change my mobile to - 7...
Hello everyone. I wanted to let you know about a new website that is an extension to this Yahoo group. Hopefully we can fill it with new user help, screenshot...
Richard, I'm using Xastir (latest stable) under gentoo linux. I'm running this setup mobile with my D700 on an ITX PC system with a USB puck style GPS and...
Hello everyone, This Saturday at the Huntsville hamfest, there will be a forum on APRS presented by Tim Cunningham N8DEU. Tim runs the N8DEU-4 Igate there in ...
Could you please pass this along HENRY COUNTY RADIO SOCIETY TAILGATE AND SWAP FEST SATURDAY SEPT. 9TH 8AM TILL 4PM. THE SWAP FEST WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE FRONT...
Hello everyone. Tim N8DEU presented an hour long APRS presentation at the Huntsville hamfest yesterday (8-19-2006). He covered a lot of info in a short amount...
I'm having some issues with my home station, sometimes for hours 2-6 hours the station can't reach the local digi.... I'm not sure if the problem is on my end...
Good to hear from you Jay, The main thing to check in UI-View is under SETUP, Station Setup. Make sure your Unproto address is something like APRS,WIDE2-2...
Fair enough... I've tried both aprs,wide1-1,wide2-2 as well as aprs,wide2-2. I'm running a MFJ-1278 tnc to an old Azden PCS-2000 transmitting about 25...
Hi Jay, Sounds like you got the correct setup from what I've seen so far. The antenna system may be the draw back. Make sure you have "Alert When Digi'd"...
Understand Jay, A good (higher gain) mobile antenna might do the trick. Diamond makes some good ones. According to the height of your attic, Diamond has some...
Hello again Jay, I have been watching some of the traffic from the Nashville area that makes it to my QTH here in Lexington. In looking at findu.com it shows ...
For some reason Auto didn't log anything, so I manually started a log and I'm email it now... needless to say I haven't passed a single packet to the digi in...