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TAPR APRS Special Interest Group Digest for Saturday, May 10, 2003.
1. WinAPRS 2.7.1 Crashes at midnight
2. Re: APRS Server help needed
3. WinAPRS 2.7.1 Error
4. Re: WAS: Tiger maps!
5. KISS Tracker?
6. Reccommended Path Broadcast
7. ICON Color Attribute
8. Re: ICON Color Attribute
9. Re:WAS: Tiger maps! is APRS PC's.
10. Emergency Beacon from Dale...
11. Re: Emergency Beacon from Dale...
12. Sitrep; WA4TKG-Gate
13. Re: Emergency Beacon from Dale...
14. Re: ICON Color Attribute
15. RE: WinAPRS 2.7.1 Error
16. Re APRS PC's.
17. RE: WinAPRS 2.7.1 Error
18. Preferences
19. WinAprs 2.7.1 (DisposePtr)
20. Re: Re APRS PC's.
21. Re: Re APRS PC's.
22. Weird One
23. Re: Weird One
24. Re: Weird One
<LYR18439-132289-2003.05.10-17.25.13--rsnyder#toontown.erial.nj.us@lists.tapr.o>
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25. Hidden transmitters
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Subject: WinAPRS 2.7.1 Crashes at midnight
From: "Jamie R. Dean" <jrd@jamierdean.com>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 00:35:23 -0400
X-Message-Number: 1
2 nights in a row the 2.7.1 crashes at the stroke of midnight. The unhandled
exception errors start and tonight it got up to 408 of them before I did a
<CTRL>-<ALT>-<DEL> and stopped it. I'm running on a 800 Mhz Celeron with
192mb ram with WinXP home edition.
73,
_______________________________________________________________________
Jamie R. Dean
US Air Force MARS Operator
Amateur Radio Operator.: W4JRD
NWS SKYWARN Spotter.: Burke County, NC USA
W4JRD's Radio Information Page.: http://w4jrd.no-ip.com
Tent Camping Group.: http://groups.msn.com/TentCamping
_______________________________________________________________________
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Subject: Re: APRS Server help needed
From: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <archer@eskimo.com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 22:28:22 -0700 (PDT)
X-Message-Number: 2
On Sat, 10 May 2003, Andrew Rich wrote:
>I have a linux perl script that listens on port 10153 for other computer,
>UI-VIEW to connect to.
>
>On connect, LINUX replays the big IGATE log file I have captured to UI-VIEW
>on port 10153.
>
>Does anyone know how I can fork the PERL server to allow more than one
>connection ?
Yea. You want a big bag of tricks to play with? Go get the Perl
Cookbook. Best Perl book I own.
For an example of a Perl5 program that kicks off lots of listening
ports and connects to other servers, check out my aprsd.pl program
that's on my ftp site. http://www.eskimo.com/~archer will get you in
the neighborhood. Ftp site link is on the left. The program is
GPL'ed. Just don't laugh at the code structure too much. It was a
quick hack that grew over time. I haven't spent great amounts of
time on it, but it does a few cool things.
Curt, WE7U. archer@eskimo.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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Subject: WinAPRS 2.7.1 Error
From: JD Delancy <W1JD@drix.net>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 08:13:59 -0400
X-Message-Number: 3
Two mornings in a row I have had "DisposePtr of invalid pts (DisposePtr)"
error messages on the screen. Not one or two but two-three dozen of them.
Whats this about?
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Subject: KISS Tracker?
From: Rich Osman <Rich@osman.com>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 07:45:45 -0500
X-Message-Number: 5
Most of the time the tracker in my vehicle won't have a PC connected.
For those times, I'd still like to have features like smart beaconing
that a standalone TNC will not do. I'd also like to be able to switch
between a few preset configs (in city, rural highway,etc.) I think what
I want is a TinyTrack without a modem. I'll cut the serial port over
when the PC is connected.
--
mailto:Rich@Osman.com http://www.rich.osman.com
Rich Osman; POB 93167; Southlake, TX 76092 (Near DFW Airport) ARS: N1OZ
If you receive something that says "Send this to everyone you know,"
PLEASE pretend you don't know me.
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Subject: Reccommended Path Broadcast
From: Rich Osman <Rich@osman.com>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 08:07:51 -0500
X-Message-Number: 6
There's been a lot of talk about recommended paths and requirement for
local variation.
While I see a number of potential problems with this idea, trackers
could be reconfiguarable in response to a broadcast message. It
wouldn't deal with the legacy or tx only stuff, but would allow for
management of stations in general classes. Infrequent broadcast would
be the norm, though a message could easily be originated in an attempt
to quiet a blabbermouth down.
It'd be really handy for weather events, get those wx stations to be
chatty when we need them but eliminate the need for them to be soaking
up bandwidth at other times. I guess it could also be useful as an
interrogation request. Does APRS support that already?
Useful content of the message that occurs to me;
effected area (bound box, just to keep it simple)
station class
recommended path
expiration (return to orignal in xx minutes, or general recommendation)
User terminals could be configured with upper and lower limits that
would ignore extreme paths and set to timeout to a default set in the
absence of a refresh. Some sort of authentication would be useful to
limit malicous activity.
--
mailto:Rich@Osman.com http://www.rich.osman.com
Rich Osman; POB 93167; Southlake, TX 76092 (Near DFW Airport) ARS: N1OZ
If you receive something that says "Send this to everyone you know,"
PLEASE pretend you don't know me.
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Subject: ICON Color Attribute
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 09:54:26 -0400 (EDT)
X-Message-Number: 7
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Miller Scott Contr 30SCS/FTI suggested:
>... Your tracker device would have a button on it that when pushed ...
>would cause the symbol for [your] station to 'bloom', blink, or
>otherwise call attention to itself...
This is built-in to the APRS protocol and APRSdos. All ICONS have a color
attribute. Any Mic-E, D7 or D700 can cause its ICON to turn Yellow,
Orange or RED by selecting the POSITION comment field to be SPECIAL,
PRIORITY or EMERGENCY. These are the 3 "msg" bits on those modules.
Just ground the right ones with a button to get the right color, or select
it in the D7/D700 menu.
>Might be useful when you've got a bunch of SAR units in the field, for
>example, and you need to verify who's who. Should be easy to implement
>and fairly non-invasive.
Yep, that's why we designed all ICONS with a COLOR attribute.
Problem is that most Windows impementations did not implement the COLOR
attribute on ICONS. (only the original APRSdos does) Here is what the
color of an ICON conveys:
WHITE is a new, live posit or object which is full message capable
BRTGRAY is similar but has no messaging capability (dumb trackers)
CYAN is dead reckoned or moving
BLUE shows the previous position so you can see where he moved from
DRKGRY an old posit more than 80 minutes old
GREEN is a digipeater or station situated for digipeating
YELLOW is an OBJECT that you are sending (or D7 set to SPECIAL)
ORANGE is a D7/D700 set to PRIORITY
VIOLET is an object you have received
RED is an emergency, or a WX station that has tripped alarms
This makes it EASY to see what is important, changing, or significant on
the APRS screen and in the case of the Mic-E protocol the SENDING unit has
control over it.
de WB4APR, Bob
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Subject: Re: ICON Color Attribute
From: Randy Allen <ka0azs@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 10:29:59 -0400
X-Message-Number: 8
Is there any way to have APRS DOS send my position icon in yellow as a
SPECIAL station similar to the MIC-E and D700?
--
Randy Allen, KAĜAZS
EC, Montgomery CO Ohio
OH Dist. 3 ARES Web Page:
http://www.qsl.net/ohd3ares/
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Subject: Emergency Beacon from Dale...
From: Rich Garcia <k4gps@bellsouth.net>
Date: 10 May 2003 11:09:08 -0400
X-Message-Number: 10
Anyone know if Dale is doing a demo ? I would think he would have posted
something on the web if he were. I just got a Emergency Beacon from the
other side of the state on the Internet that he is sending a emergency
beacon.
11:08am Saturday Arcadia FL and then an immediate change in position
back into Collier Co.
--
Rich Garcia K4GPS
Jupiter Farms FL.
www.richgarcia.net
Jupiter Farms Community Emergency Response Team
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