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Re: APRS under Linux



Don't forget to subscribe to debian-hams mailing list.... very low traffic, but some of the pioneers of ham radio use in Linux are hanging around there in the shadows.

Nate WY0X

Dana J. Laude wrote:

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:12:50PM +0100 or thereabouts, Arnt Karlsen wrote:

..excellent, tell us about it, there will be more people asking the same
question and now is your chance to help'em find _your_ solution.  ;-)


Well, I suppose that I can do that. :-)  I was curious on getting APRS
working under debian, since I don't have a TNC.  I was chatting with a
fellow ham friend and he mentioned a program that ran under windows
that would simulate a TNC.  Well, I figured I could do the same thing
under debian.  Seems like I was right!  Basically I installed the
xastir program and now it's working.  You'll need to download some
maps (see the /usr/share/doc/xastir/README.MAPS.gz for details)
and then set them up in xastir.

The next thing will be setting up a weather station, and purchasing
a kenwood th-d7a(g) ht in a few months.  Everything is running
right now under the current debian unstable branch btw. I'll keep
everyone posted as things progress.

Dana - KC9AAE




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