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TAPR APRS Special Interest Group Digest for Wednesday, July 30, 2003.
1. RE: garmin software
2. RE: APRS-IS Connections?
3. Re: Help for DSC decoding
4. Re: Help for DSC decoding
5. RE: garmin software
6. Multiple feeds of GPS data
7. Re: 9600 sound card packet
8. RE: PK-232
9. Digitraveler power
10. RE: Digitraveler power
11. KAM XL init
12. Re: Digitraveler power
13. Re: Digitraveler power
14. Re: Digitraveler power
15. Re: Digitraveler power
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Subject: RE: garmin software
From: "Herb Gerhardt" <hgerhardt@charter.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:20:08 -0700
X-Message-Number: 1
Wes,
If you use Garmin's MapSource program you can delete individual tracks,
combine them, massage them etc.... Then after you have modified the tracks
to the way you want them you can upload them back to your GPS. You can also
modify the Waypoints or add and delete waypoints before you upload to the
GPS again. I spend a good 30 minutes on the computer after every trip to
modify my permanent master files of all the areas I hike and hunt in. One
thing you need to do before you upload your saved file back to the GPS is to
delete all current tracks and Waypoints from your GPS before you upload your
file.
Garmin has done a great job with their MapSource software and they have
added features that I have requested over the years. I started with their
PCX-5 DOS software which was poor and worked with their original developer
of MapSource long before it came out. Unfortunately that software
developer left the company before he finished the program. It then took
several years for someone else to pick it up and finish it. It finally got
out and has had numerous features added to it over the years. Sure there
are other changes I could use but I am very satisfied with the current
version 5 of the MapSource software. Sure would love to be able to add new
individual track points to an existing track, but that feature is still not
available (Garmin are you listening).
Wes, if you have problems or particular question, feel free to ask me
directly and I will try to help.
I currently use the Garmin III+ GPS units. I have played with a borrowed
GPS V a little but I have not mastered uploading the track logs to it very
well. On the V it takes the first 10 tracks of my active logs and saves
them into the 10 available saved files and gives me an error message that it
has run out of memory. On the III+, I only use the Active Log and not the
Saved Logs. I can save many different logs into the Active Log without
tying the different tracks together.
Herb, KB7UVC
NW APRS Group, West Sound Coordinator
Our WEB Site: www.nwaprs.org
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Subject: RE: APRS-IS Connections?
From: "Roger Bille" <roger.bille@telia.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:50:33 +0200
X-Message-Number: 2
Max,
>>But msg traffic for callsigns originating outside Europe/UK
>>isn't send to my server. This became apparent when trying to
>>send an e-mail via the New Jersey gateway. The e-mail is send
>>OK but an acknowledgement APRS message is never received.
>>This is correct, as the acknowledgement message originates
>>from somewehere outside Europe/UK. But I would like to
>>receive this, and other messages, despite of the filtering.
>
>These messages should have been passed. Roger monitors this SIG
>(javAPRSFilter author) and I am sure will look into it. The range and
>area filters should pass all packets originated within the range AND all
>messages addressed to stations with posits in the range area. If this
>is not happening, Roger will take a look.
Yes it should do that. However the key thing is that a posit has been sent
first through your igate, i.e. confirmed local to your igate. Can you
please confirm that it the case ?
73 de sm5nrk/Roger
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Subject: Re: Help for DSC decoding
From: "Joe Della Barba" <joe@dellabarba.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 05:52:48 -0400
X-Message-Number: 3
I will capture some data from my own radio and post it to see if that helps.
73
Joe N3HGB
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Subject: Re: Help for DSC decoding
From: "Wes Johnston" <wes@johnston.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:58:43 -0400
X-Message-Number: 4
Hows the decoding of RINO data coming along?
Wes
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Subject: RE: garmin software
From: "Mike Yetsko" <myetsko@insydesw.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:03:32 -0400
X-Message-Number: 5
I wonder if the Garmin software has accessed to 'undocumented' commands.
Something that would make the job of doing things out of the ordinary a bit
easier.
On the other hand, they may be doing things totally by what is a published
spec, just in innovative ways that may not be normally thought of.
When I hear of things like this, sometimes I'm just tempted to pull out the
analyzer...
Mike
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Subject: Multiple feeds of GPS data
From: WB4GQK@aol.com
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:44:51 EDT
X-Message-Number: 6
Hi,
The queston has been posed how to feed 2 or more applications from one GPS
input.
I beleive this is possible because of the paticular software I am using.
The top level program is THE CAP'N VOYAGER ver 5.3.2 This is a navigation
software program that accepts the NMEA data from the GPS, plots the
vessel's position on electronic charts. It provides output signal control
to the vessel's autopilot. Basicly one plots a course, which may have many
course changes, and the navigation program controls the vessels position to
the charted course regardless of speed changes, all based on the GPS input.
My laptop has two (2) USB ports and two (2)PCMIA slots. The GPS data is
supplied via a PCMIA card as serial port 3. On the main screen of the CAP'N
program a vertical tool bar on left displays the GPS data, speed made good,
course, distance to/from course change, couple other navigation components,
but it also has the command "CLICK HERE TO FIND GPS" This is pretty neat
because I have unthinkingly put the card in the slot for port 4. On the
toolbar across the top there is a menu for ROUTE/MARK . Selecting this
provides 8 options, by selecting EXPORT you get a new screen menu with 1.
EXPORT TRACT with options:A:/C:/ .. The second window 2: SELECT FOLDER
under this option I select WinAPRS file. So basicly the CAP'N places the
GPS data in the APRS program. The menu also allows you to select precisely
what data you want exported. You select only GPS LAT/LON.
Once data is in the APRS program it transmits to the TNC and then to the
radio. For the past couple of years this has worked extremely well. I have
been using a KAM'98 to drive the ICOM M800 SSB, however it appears I will
have to swap for a KAM+ if I add the ICOM M602 VHF radio. That way I can
have both the VHF and SSB under control from one port.
The only difference so far in my test setup with the M602 is that I am
using PacTerm'98 , Packet mode as the application software. The CAP'N
exports the GPS data to the PacTerm, and so far all I do is manually key
transmit. I have not attempted to fully automate this function since I am
looking for software that can decode the received DSC. Hopefully if it can
decode inbound it should be able to send the GPS data back to the M602.
There must be a dozen other ways to have multiple feeds but this approach
works in this setup. I'm always open for suggestions.
de Jim WB4GQK.
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Subject: Re: 9600 sound card packet
From: Ralph Milnes <ralph.milnes@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:25:38 -0400
X-Message-Number: 7
>Has anyone make a 9600 sound card interface? I believe 9600 baud has to have
>response down to 64hz (I think), but the phrase "dc coupling" seems to be
>used
>alot. Do the transformers in most PSK31 type sound card interfaces work ok
>for
>9k6?
>Thanks
>Wes
>ham callsign: kd4rdb
>find me: http://wesvan.zapto.org
I guess the interface all depends on your radio, since 9600 uses FSK
(Frequency Shift Keying) not the Audio FSK (tones) used for 1200 baud (but
you probably knew that).
For example, some newer radios have a 9600 baud mode (such as the Kenwood
TM-V7A which I use) which allows you to simply tap into the radio's data
jack for 9600. I used that jack with a standard PSK31-type sound card
interface (specifically, a Buxcomm RASCAL) and AGWPE software for 9600.
I've only tried it once -- successfully -- with radios separated by only a
few yards, so I don't have a lot of solid experience with 9600. But
apparently the transformers worked OK.
I don't have any experience in interfacing with a radio not designed this
way -- one requiring you to tap into the radio directly at the FM
modulator/IF detector.
For what it's worth ...
Ralph KC2RLM
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