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<p><font face="Arial">Hi Guys,</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">Here's an email I sent back in 2009 for a
station wanting to do Inet-RF with xastir. The content may
provide you with some useful information.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">The help was in the context of sending
stations of interest (local wx from the airports AWS, e.g.) to
RF. I "think" that messaging is automatically forwarded provided
Inet->RF is turned on.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">Ray vk2tv</font></p>
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<pre>Greg,
I can't advise on the path but don't forget you'll need entries in
/home/.../.xastir/data/nws-stations.txt, essentially an entry for each
station you want to gate to RF. The first three characters will suffice
for any callsign containing those characters - vk2 would cover ALL vk2
callsigns, for example.Here's my file entries ...
#a few local callsigns
vk2tv
vk2wet
vk2aak
vk2sx
vk2uni
#the satellites
ISS
AO-
CO-
DO-
FO-
GO-
IO-
LO-
NO-
PO-
SO-
UO-
VO-
RS-
COMPASS
CAPE
GeneSat
ARISS
#regional weather warnings
MNC
NTL
NTR
#local automatic weather stations
ALDAVILLA
PORTMAC
TAREE
You need to select Allow RF->Inet and Inet->RF in Config/Defaults, as
well as for the RF port configs.
Back when we were running a "quiet" local frequency I enabled ALL vk and
zl traffic for a trial, and the transmitter hardly ever stopped
transmitting. It was an interesting experiment in warming the shack
:<i>-) I'm sure you would see even more traffic than I did.
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/11/17 14:56, Mathew McKernan
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<p>Hi Norm,</p>
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<p>Thanks for responding.</p>
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<p>I know little of Xastir personally, but this link may have
some info for you:</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
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<p>Matty<br>
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color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> OZAPRS
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au"><ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au></a> on behalf of Norm McMillan
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:vk3xci@gmail.com"><vk3xci@gmail.com></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 8 November 2017 2:48:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Australian APRS Users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OZAPRS] VK3WRM - iGate / Messaging</font>
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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.<br>
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norm vk3xci<br>
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<p>Hi all,</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>I've been on a houseboat for the past week
beaconing away as we float up the Murray (side note,
awesome country!).
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Any ideas or am I missing some understanding of how
this is meant to work?</p>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
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<p>Matty<br>
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<p>VK3MJM<br>
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