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Today's Topics:
1. Re: aprssig Digest, Vol 31, Issue 5 (Phillip)
2. Re: "Ancient" hardware (Was: Xastir on Solaris) (Philip Leonard WV?T)
3. RAFT/ANDE Progress report (Robert Bruninga)
4. Re: "Ancient" hardware (Was: Xastir on Solaris) (Floyd Rodgers)
5. Re: RAFT/ANDE Progress report ( Francisco Rogerio Fontenele Arag?o )
6. No maps (Ray Wells)
7. HF Ops (AA3JY_at_Winlink.org)
8. Atten: All HF APRS Ops (AA3JY_at_Winlink.org)
9. Re: No maps (Curt Mills)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 07:21:34 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
From: "Phillip" <zl2tze_at_yahoo.com.au>
Subject: [aprssig] Re: aprssig Digest, Vol 31, Issue 5
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:12:51 -0600
From: Philip Leonard WV?T <leolists_at_seidkr.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] "Ancient" hardware (Was: Xastir on Solaris)
How about a Digital Group Z80 (circa 1976)
Or an IBM AS/400 model 500 (2 racks) - for the heavyweight category
Sun Enterprise 4500 (8-way)
Sun Ultra30
Sun Untra5
Philip
Scott Miller wrote:
>I can beat all of you for mass, at least - my VAX 6000-510's hard drives
>alone weigh more than all of those put together! Speaking of which, if
>anyone out there wants a VAX, it's free for the taking - I need to free up
>some garage space.
>
>Aside from that, I've got an SGI Indigo 2, NeXTStation Turbo Color,
>AlphaStation 200, two SparcStation IPXs, two VAXStations, two MicroVAX IIs,
>a Sparc 10 clone, a stack of HDS ViewStation X terminals (which have
>actually been used for Xastir), a few C-64's, VIC-20s, and a C-128 (gave the
>PETs away, sadly), and more 486s and things than I can count, despite giving
>away a station wagon load recently. One 486 is still in use burning UI-Digi
>ROMs.
>
>Scott
>N1VG
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 15:21:45 -0500
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga_at_usna.edu>
Subject: [aprssig] RAFT/ANDE Progress report
ANDE and RAFT APRS satellites are operatonal. There is a local TV clip now
on the web page where the students discuss their satellite projects. See
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-raft-ops.html
Both signals are weak and require a beam and high elevations to hear them.
As of this time, RAFT speech is enabled for special testing only in
accordance with the User Service Agreement:
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande/ANDEcontract.txt
During a 58 degrees max elevation pass, at about 45 degrees elevation,
PA3GUO reports a successful voice packet via RAFT. The MP3 file is on the
ANDE-RAFT-OPS web page above. A high elevation pass is usually required.
PLEASE NOTE! RAFT is underpowered for this voice mission, and so this
capability should only be used by special demo stations and for special
events or tests. The downlink is very weak and needs a beam and a high
elevation pass to hear it. DO NOT TRANSMIT A VOICE PACKET IF YOU CANNOT
HEAR THE DOWNLINK. You must adhere to the user service agreement above to
use this capability.
When ACTIVATED, RAFT will speak an APRS formatted MESSAGE addressed to the
callsign of TALK. This APRS Message packet was Transmitted by PA3GUO:
>PA3GUO-8>APRS,RAFT*::TALK :henk says hello
First the packet is digipeated (lets you know it received it). Then (up to
10 seconds later), it should SPEAK the packet. In this case RAFT spoke:
>"PA3GUO" + "says" + "henk says hello"
Although the Speech synthesizer is ENABLED, it is normally OFF. To use it,
someone in the footprint has to activate the voice module with a CONNECT
REQUEST to "RAFT". On hearing a connect request, (the connecting station
can do nothing else), RAFT responds in voice with "Welcome to TextSpeak".
At that point, RAFT will speak any APRS formatted MESSAGES from anyone to
TALK. Again, notice that if you see the successfully DIGIPEATED packet,
then it will speak it, although there might be up to a 10 second delay. If
you see such a successful APRS MESSGE to TALK digipeated, then everyone
should hold off until it gets a chance to speak it.
Notice the APRS MESSAGE format carefully. The callsign TALK is bracketed
with colons and is padded to 9 characters with 5 spaces on the end.
Oh, This speech was enabled with simply the connection of an off the shelf
$200 text-to-speech module connected to the serial port of the spaeccraft
KPC3+ TNC. Kantronics made a slight software mode to replace the normal
packet header with "CALLSIGN SAYS" before the packet is sent out the serial
port. With this mod, you can use a radio, TNC and this voice module to
create "voice at a distance"... But the high cost of the voice module will
probably prohibit much terrestrial applications..
Bob Bruninga, WB4APR
US Naval Academy Satellite Lab.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:06:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Floyd Rodgers <kc5qbc_at_swbell.net>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] "Ancient" hardware (Was: Xastir on Solaris)
Ok folks, let's end this. We ALL know we're packrats and refuse to throw
anything away.......
If only I would have had this many responses to the original question, I
would be looking at the display by now.
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 19:55:59 -0200
From: " Francisco Rogerio Fontenele Arag?o " <frfaragao_at_gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] RAFT/ANDE Progress report
Hi Bob
It never had a satelite like PCSAT. Yesterday I was able to repeat my
packet using 100mW with THD7 + AL-800. Elevation was 5 degree. Is there a
PCSAT3 in the future?
73, Francisco
PT2TD
--
Francisco Rogerio F. Aragão
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:01:31 +1100
From: Ray Wells <vk2tv_at_exemail.com.au>
Subject: [aprssig] No maps
I've been running xastir 1.8.2 on a 2.2.26 kernel for some time and all was
well.
I've just rebuilt my system with 2.6.18 kernel and although xastir (1.8.4)
compiles and runs, I have no maps.
xastir was compiled with no support for festival or dbfawk. Everything else
is there.
My maps are in the usual location and I've checked file/directory
permissions, but even running xastir as root fails to load maps. The maps I
used to use, and want to use again, are.jpg maps. My maps and their
associated files (.geo) were copied from the old system.
I could send pages of information (probably mostly irrelevant) so it might
be better if someone could tell me what information I should be looking for
to sort this problem.
Ray vk2tv
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:10:59 -0000
From: AA3JY_at_Winlink.org
Subject: [aprssig] HF Ops
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:14:56 -0000
From: AA3JY_at_Winlink.org
Subject: [aprssig] Atten: All HF APRS Ops
Please check your APRS Operations on 10.151mHz..the FCC is checking on
out-of-band complaints due to possible distortion as indicated in their
lastest FCC Warnings(see ARRL web site)
Regards,
Clay AA3JY
(via WL2K)
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 09:58:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Curt Mills <archer_at_eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] No maps
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Ray Wells wrote:
>I've just rebuilt my system with 2.6.18 kernel and although xastir (1.8.4)
>compiles and runs, I have no maps.
>
>xastir was compiled with no support for festival or dbfawk. Everything else is
>there.
>
>My maps are in the usual location and I've checked file/directory permissions,
>but even running xastir as root fails to load maps. The maps I used to use,
>and want to use again, are.jpg maps. My maps and their associated files
>(.geo) were copied from the old system.
Try reindexing all of your maps from the Map->Configure menu. If that
doesn't fix it you can correspond with my privately about it or post
questions/data to the Xastir list where you'll probably get more and varied
responses.
--
Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com
http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!"
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