[OZAPRS] VK3WRM - iGate / Messaging

[Mathew McKernan]

Hi Norm,


Thanks for responding.


I know little of Xastir personally, but this link may have some info for you:


http://xastir.sourceforge.net/manual/sec_interfaces.html


I suspect "allow transmitting" is enabled, as you're beaconing periodically indicating the presence on RF. It also means the sound card is properly outputting the 1200bps FSK. I reckon you need the "Allow RF-Inet and Inet-RF traffic" set.


Other than that, I may not be much use in terms of helping fix it. If I was in town I'd be happy to drop by and work on it with you.


Cheers,


Matty

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From: OZAPRS <ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au> on behalf of Norm McMillan <vk3xci at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 8 November 2017 2:48:16 PM
To: Australian APRS Users
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] VK3WRM - iGate / Messaging

Matty,

I'm the Mildura iGate-keeper. I took it over from Ron VK3ECV. It's a Raspberry pi/xastir, TNC2 and FM828 on a bookshelf in my shack. Off-air link to/from VK2RBX. I must confess it justs sits there... I seldom look at it. When I get some time I'll check if I have something mis-set in xastir, like internet to rf. In fact, i'm pretty sure I have that disabled. Right now I don't have a lot of time so if somebody can tell me what to look for I'll fix it.

norm  vk3xci

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Mathew McKernan <mathew at mmckernan.id.au<mailto:mathew at mmckernan.id.au>> wrote:

Hi all,


Not sure who the operator of the Mildura iGate VK3WRM but I think I may have found a problem with messaging via it. I am using VHF rather than APRS-IS as occasionally there is no phone reception.


I've been on a houseboat for the past week beaconing away as we float up the Murray (side note, awesome country!).


I've had a friend in NSW that I was messaging. The messages I send make it to him, but any replies or ACK messages do not make it back to me.


At a guess, I think the iGate isn't caching who it has gated into the IS network and therefore it isn't transmitting anything back out to the VHF network. It does beacon itself on VHF as normal, so I can fairly certain it isn't a Receive only gate.


Any ideas or am I missing some understanding of how this is meant to work?


Thanks,


Matty

VK3MJM


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