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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Agw tracker and Agw packet engine (Stephen H. Smith)
2. APRS Satellite user interface (Andrew Rich)
3. RE: GPS from Sprint data card (Earl Needham)
4. Help with setup to Work the RAFTPSK-31 transponder (Dave Sloan)
5. Re: Agw tracker and Agw packet engine (Mark Fellhauer)
6. Re: Re: Agw tracker and Agw packet engine (Stephen H. Smith)
7. xastir : xastir-development (Curt, WE7U)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:31:35 -0800
From: "Stephen H. Smith" <wa8lmf2_at_aol.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Agw tracker and Agw packet engine
flknbry_at_netzero.net wrote:
>Hi
>I Have a laptop running Xp and a baycom BP-2 modem.I would like to
>utilize the modem and laptop.Now i know i will need the Agw packet
>engine is it tough to configure?.Also
>does the AGw tracker include the packet engine or will it
>not work with the baycom modem?.
1) You will have to purchase the Packet Engine Pro. The freeware version
won't work with the Baycom modem on Win 2K or XP.
2) Even the Pro version (which you can try free for 30 days to "test
drive") may not work, since any laptop modern enough to run XP probably
either a) doesn't have serial ports at all or b) has ACPI [power managed]
serial ports which won't work with AGW.
The Baycom isn't really a modem at all. It's a high-gain audio amp that
feeds clipped and saturated receiver AUDIO (not demodulated serial data)
into one of the hand shaking lines of the serial port (not the data-in
line). Software on the PC counts how many times/second the pin is flipped
up and down to determine what audio tone freq is being heard. In other
words, the "modem" is in software inside the PC. This requires that the
program running on the PC have direct access to the serial port HARDWARE,
bypassing Windows' overhead. This can be done in DOS, Win 3.x and Win
95/98 but is nearly impossible to do in Win 2K or XP.
You will be better off trying to use AGW's soundcard mode instead.
--
Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
EchoLink Node: 14400 [Think bottom of the 2M band]
Home Page: http://wa8lmf.com --OR-- http://wa8lmf.net
NEW! TNC Test CD
http://wa8lmf.net/TNCtest
JavAPRS Filter Port 14580 Guide
http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/JAVaprsFilters.htm
"APRS 101" Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating
http://wa8lmf.net/DigiPaths
Updated "Rev G" APRS http://wa8lmf.net/aprs
Symbols Set for UI-View,
UIpoint and APRSplus:
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:20:20 +1000
From: "Andrew Rich" <vk4tec_at_tech-software.net>
Subject: [aprssig] APRS Satellite user interface
Gudday,
Anybody graphing PCSAT, ANDE and RAFT telem ?
I have setup a sat panel, would like to graph data next, and have a
parameters panel as well.
Open to suggestions.
http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/sat_panel.htm
Check out "Satellite Status"
Andrew Rich
Amateur radio callsign VK4TEC
email: vk4tec_at_tech-software.net
web: http://www.tech-software.net
Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:53:37 -0700
From: Earl Needham <needhame1_at_plateautel.net>
Subject: RE: [aprssig] GPS from Sprint data card
Thanks, Scott -- I guess I'm just going to have to wait until the Deluo
unit arrives. The data card only updates something like once every ten or
fifteen minutes anyway, making it pretty useless for APRS. It sure is nice
having an internet connection just about anywhere, though!
7 3
Earl
At 10:48 AM 1/14/2007, Scott Miller wrote:
>Earl,
>
>That shows an invalid fix - the 0 after the E indicates that. Could be it
>just hasn't locked on yet.
>
>Scott
>N1VG
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: aprssig-bounces_at_lists.tapr.org
>>[mailto:aprssig-bounces_at_lists.tapr.org] On Behalf Of Earl Needham
>>
>>I have a Sprint data card that has GPS functions
>>built-in. Below is the output of the GPS section, and UI-View32
>>doesn't like it. Is there a way to get UI-View32 to use this data?
>>
>>$GPGGA,235947.0,5717.746771,N,05717.746771,E,0,32,99.9,1.0,M,,,,*39
>>$GPGGA,235947.0,5717.746771,N,05717.746771,E,0,32,99.9,1.0,M,,,,*39
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Earl
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:54:47 -0700
From: "Dave Sloan" <desloan_at_earthlink.net>
Subject: [aprssig] Help with setup to Work the RAFTPSK-31 transponder
-----Original Message-----
>
>Thanks, Scott -- I guess I'm just going to have to wait
>until the Deluo unit arrives. The data card only updates something
>like once every ten or fifteen minutes anyway, making it pretty
>useless for APRS. It sure is nice having an internet connection just
>about anywhere, though!
>
>7 3
>Earl
>
>At 10:48 AM 1/14/2007, Scott Miller wrote:
>>Earl,
>>
>>That shows an invalid fix - the 0 after the E indicates that. Could be it
>>just hasn't locked on yet.
>>
>>Scott
>>N1VG
Hello everyone,
First question is I read where " Someone in the footprint must do a
packet CONNECT RAFT". Is this done on 10 meter? Is this done with AX-25 or
what? How can you tell if someone else has already sent the "Connect RAFT"?
Next I plan on using my FT902 with a rascal interface going to my WINPSK
program for the 10 meter side. Can I use my FT 7800 for the FM side? Will I
need to be able to connect both the FT920 and the FT7800 to the rascal at
the same time? Or will I need a switch to choose either the FT920 or the
FT7800?
I plan on constructing a 4 element quad for two meters. What polarization
do I need? Will this give me enough gain?
Anyone that has either used this setup or a similar one that has any
suggestions or ideas that would make it easier or better?
TNX & 73,
Dave N0EOP
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:15:22 -0800
From: Mark Fellhauer <sparkfel_at_qwest.net>
Subject: [aprssig] Re: Agw tracker and Agw packet engine
At 11:31 AM 1/14/2007, Stephen H. Smith wrote:
>1) You will have to purchase the Packet Engine Pro. The freeware
>version won't work with the Baycom modem on Win 2K or XP.
>2) Even the Pro version (which you can try free for 30 days to "test
>drive")may not work, since any laptop modern enough to run XP probably
>either a) doesn't have serial ports at all or b) has ACPI [power managed]
>serial ports which won't work with AGW.
>The Baycom isn't really a modem at all. It's a high-gain audio amp that
>feeds clipped and saturated receiver AUDIO (not demodulated serial data)
>into one of the hand shaking lines of the serial port (not the data-in
>line). Software on the PC counts how many times/second the pin is flipped
>up and down to determine what audio tone freq is being heard.
>In other words, the "modem" is in software inside the PC. This requires
>that the program running on the PC have direct access to the serial port
>HARDWARE, bypassing Windows' overhead. This can be done in DOS, Win
>3.x and Win 95/98 but is nearly impossible to do in Win 2K or XP.
>
>
>You will be better off trying to use AGW's soundcard mode instead.
Interesting. It's funny how so many people say serial ports don't work
under XP in DOS, but I've run Trunker (in a DOS Box) on several XP
machines, using a very simple two-level data slicer. It also works with
other DOS-based decoder software for ACARS, POCSAG, etc.
I will admit, most soundcard based decoders work well and are generally
easier to set up.
73,
Mark
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:24:37 -0800
From: "Stephen H. Smith" <wa8lmf2_at_aol.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Re: Agw tracker and Agw packet engine
>Interesting. It's funny how so many people say serial ports don't
>work under XP in DOS, but I've run Trunker (in a DOS Box) on several
>XP machines, using a very simple two-level data slicer. It also works
>with other DOS-based decoder software for ACARS, POCSAG, etc.
>
>I will admit, most soundcard based decoders work well and are
>generally easier to set up.
I'm just requoting what the AGW website says about the Baycom -- that
it won't work on the virtualized power-managed serial ports in 2K or XP.
--
Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
EchoLink Node: 14400 [Think bottom of the 2M band]
Home Page: http://wa8lmf.com --OR-- http://wa8lmf.net
NEW! TNC Test CD
http://wa8lmf.net/TNCtest
JavAPRS Filter Port 14580 Guide
http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/JAVaprsFilters.htm
"APRS 101" Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating
http://wa8lmf.net/DigiPaths
Updated "Rev G" APRS http://wa8lmf.net/aprs
Symbols Set for UI-View,
UIpoint and APRSplus:
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:32:19 -0800 (PST)
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer_at_eskimo.com>
Subject: [aprssig] xastir : xastir-development
Project: XASTIR (xastir)
Package: xastir-development
Date : 2007-01-15 08:12
Project "XASTIR" ('xastir') has released the new version of package
'xastir-development'. You can download it from SourceForge.net by following
this link:
or browse Release Notes and ChangeLog by visiting this link:
Homepage: <http://www.xastir.org>
--
Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: 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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