From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Fri Apr 6 11:06:45 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id LAA27921 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:06:43 -0500 (CDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: mcmusick@mail.anet-stl.com Message-Id: Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:32:40 -0500 To: "APRS Announcements" From: Mike Musick Subject: [aprsnews] Maps of Europe for pocketAPRS, WinAPRS Cc: ct2hao@clix.pt Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio X-Message-Id: Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk With thanks to the tireless efforts of Miguel Matias, CT2HAO, we appear to be on the verge of solving the relative lack of APRS-format vector maps for Europe. Miguel is able to create original maps in the DXF drafting format, which are translatable into pocketAPRS and Win/MacAPRS native formats. A test map of Europe is now on the TAPR FTP in two formats - pocketAPRS: ftp://ftp.tapr.org//aprssig/palmstuff/palmmaps/02Non-US%20Maps/Europe.pdb WinAPRS and MacAPRS: ftp://ftp.tapr.org//aprssig/maps/WinMacMaps/europe.zip We are looking for confirmation from APRS users on the Continent that maps produced this way reasonably represent the reality. If you have a chance to check either or both, please direct your comments to myself (mcmusick@anet-stl.com) or Miguel (ct2hao@clix.pt), so we can fine-tune the process. Thanks! ...mike/N0QBF -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pocketAPRS - APRS for the Palm Connected Organizer Website: http://www.pocketaprs.com FAQ: http://www.pocketaprs.com/faq.html Application: ftp://ftp.tapr.org//aprssig/palmstuff/palmaprs/pcktaprs.zip Map Files: ftp://ftp.tapr.org//aprssig/palmstuff/palmmaps/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org Questions regarding the SIG go to the SIG administrator: wa1lou@tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Fri Apr 6 15:23:49 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id PAA21363 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:23:48 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: X-Sender: plkilroy@pop700.gsfc.nasa.gov Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 16:18:22 -0400 To: "APRS Announcements" From: Pat Kilroy Subject: [aprsnews] AMSAT-DC "Official Record" and Photograph Cc: garc-bb@garc-fs.gsfc.nasa.gov, simsat@listserv.gsfc.nasa.gov, aprsnews@lists.tapr.org, pat@patkilroy.com, aa3rr@arrl.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio X-Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010406154400.00a3a0d0@pop700.gsfc.nasa.gov> Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk I just posted our "official" summary and a group photo from last Sunday afternoon's gathering on our AMSAT-DC web site: http://simsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssamsatdc.html Also, I made it easier to write to any of the speakers to thank them for their volunteer efforts. Please do! Just click on their name and tell them what you think. Good things, of course! -PK ===================================================================== Patrick L. Kilroy WK Integration & Test Lead Engineer PHONE: 301-286-1984 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center FAX: 301-286-1673 Building 5, Mail Code 568 E-MAIL: pat.kilroy@gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, Maryland 20771 WEB: http://simsat.gsfc.nasa.gov ===================================================================== --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org Questions regarding the SIG go to the SIG administrator: wa1lou@tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Sat Apr 7 20:03:02 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id UAA27753 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 20:02:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: From: "Henk de Groot" To: "APRS Announcements" References: Subject: [aprsnews] DIGI_NED 0.2.5 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 23:45:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio X-Message-Id: <004601c0bfac$52372640$f5234bd5@toshiba> Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I released a new version of DIGI_NED, version 0.2.5. I had send out 0.2.4 but discovered a anoying bug which I corrected. If you don't know what DIGI_NED is, it is a dedicated digipeater, does not have a GUI but is very stable and good at its job (If you disagree, tell me what's wrong and I fix it...). It runs in DOS on cheap 286 class PC's (or better) and on Linux using all kind of modems, from cheap BayCom/BayPack and YAM modem to KISS TNC's and SCC cards. It can have up to 8 ports so can also act as a cross-band digipeater. The source is published under the GPL licence. Besides small enhancements a new function, the satellite tracker, designed by Alex Krist, KG4ECV. Determine azymuth and elevation through APRS. Let DIGI_NED tell you through APRS when a satellite will fly over in your area. Follow the sattelite on your map. Furthermore big news, DIGI_NED has now a coordinated destination call which is world-wide assigned to DIGI_NED. All packets with "to" address APNDxx are originated by DIGI_NED. When tou see this you know which services you can expect from the digipeater! Furthermore additional suppoer for telemetry multiplexing. Take a look at the DIGI_NED telemetry APRS temperature measurement installation on: http://www.online-club.de/~burkhard-john/aprs_thermometer/index.html You can also reach this page via the DIGI_NED Techweb at the VrzApDxw/ DIGI_NET site (http://www.qsl.net/digi_ned). As usual the dos executable has been posted to APRS7@NLDNET on the HAM packetnetwork as DNEXE025.ZIP. The executable an the sources are now available on the Internet: http://www.qsl.net/digi_ned Here are the changes from the Changes.txt file: Changes.txt 04-04-2001 version 0.2.5 - Found an error in the pattern matching routine. Also use of pattern matching caused commands like "!out 1 10010001" to return an error 04-04-2001 version 0.2.4 - Apparently one of the types I created "timer_t" now is also included in GCC. This caused compilation errors on systems with a new GCC version. I renamed my type to "digi_timer_t". - Removed object from the message-file, the shop for which it was is gone. - DigiTo: and DigiSsid: changed back in the default digi_ned.ini. Now they only there is an explicit test for UIview messages to avoid SSID substitution on those. The patch from the previous version was no good since it also did not allow MIC-E packets anymore. The rule used to solve this is ssid_ignore_prefix: which now has the "~" character to block UIview messages for SSID digipeating. - Keyboard commands now also work in Linux. The handling is a little bit restricted in the sense that it uses the 0x08 character as backspace, disregarding any terminal settings. Commands can be entered with ESC flowed by the command character. On my RH5.2 installation this also works with ALT- since that just outputs the character with an ESC prefix character. YMMV but at least for some users these keyboard commands will work. For Linux I did not add the ALT-D (or ESC+D) command, starting a shell from DIGI_NED is useless for Linux. Since you don't want DIGI_NED to mess with the keyboard when you want to run it in background, keyboard support has to be switched on by supplying a '-k' flag at the commandline. - Implemented ALT-H which gives keyboard-help. Now you don't have to memorize al the ALT- commands anymore, just ALT-H! - From the message file you can now start a program. You can also read the query response from a file. Response strings starting with '!' are executed. Response strings starting with '>' will read the data from a file named in the text. When starting a string with '!!' execution is restricted to the digi owner. - In a message text you can use %q which will be replaced runtime with the complete query string from the user (converted to lowercase). - You can now use wildcards in queries to match the rest of the query. This works the same way as wildcards in the the call-matching used with the rules. The wildcards are: * Matches any 0 or more character(s). ? Matches any 1 character. @ Matches any alpha character. ! Matches any digit. This can be used to simplify the alternatives for a query, I had the need for this to implement the ?whois example. - Added Satellite tracker, donated by Alex Krist, KG4ECV. Read Sattrack.txt and Sattrack.doc for details. Thank you very much, it is a very nice addition to DIGI_NED! You can send "sats" or "sat list" to get a list of available satellites. All satellites are identified with a 4 character AMSAT identifier. When a satellite has only 3 characters append underscores to make it 4 (e.g. ISS becomes ISS_). You can have DIGI_NED plot the location of a satellite for you. Send 'sat ao40' for example to get an AO40 satellite object on the map. The satellite will have comment text that specifies when it will come above the horizon in your area. You can also track a satellite. Send 'trk uo22' to track the uo22 satellite. When not in range every 10 minutes an update for the uo22 is plot on your map. The satellite comments shows when it will rise above the horizon. When in range the satellite will plot an update every minute. The satellitte comment shows you bearing and azimuth to the satellite but also the up dan downlink frequency including the current dopler shift for you. Besides that the mode op operation is visible. For more extensive information read Sattrack.txt and Sattrack.doc, provided by Alex, KG4ECV. - As usual moved some code to enhance the program structure. - Started using APNDxx as destination code instead of APZxxx. - New format destination addess: DIGI_NED now uses destination address APNDxx. The prefix APN can be shared with other intelligent digipeaters. The prefix APND is reserved for DIGI_NED now in coordination with the APRS protocol workgroup. The DIGI_NED version number is now compressed in 2 alfanumeric bytes. For this count base 36 is used to have enough numbers to identifiy DIGI_NED versions, I.e counting goes: 01,02,...,09,0A,0B,...,0Z,10,11,..,1Z,20,...,etc where 01 is version 0.0.1, 0Z is version 0.3.5 and 10 is version 0.3.6 etc. It is not as clear as the old numbering, but this leaves space for other applications using the APN prefix. Table (for versions 001 to 036 with corresponding base 36 numbers): 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 0G 0H 0I 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 0J 0K 0L 0M 0N 0O 0P 0Q 0R 0S 0T 0U 0V 0W 0X 0Y 0Z 10 The destination for this version is APND0O (P.S. Suggestions to use different destination addresses have been declined in coordination with the APRS protocol workgroup members. The version identification is an part of the APRS standard, the type of message can be identified with the whole frame anyway). - DIGI_NED now contains support for multiplexing via the lpt port. When reading the port the port number (which is 0 based and runs from 0 to 5) is put on bits 1, 2 and 3 of the control port. These bits correspond with the "Auto Linefeed", "Initialize Printer" and "Select Printer" outputs of the LPT port. - Removed French documentation, added a pointer to the Moselle APRS Packet Group (MAPG) in France to the digi_ned documentation. Use this to get French support for DIGI_NED. The address is: http://mapg.ifrance.com/mapg/index.htm or via the DIGI_NED portal at http://www.qsl.net/digi_ned/ APRS[tm] is a Trademark of Bob Bruninga, his home page is at "http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs.html" Kind regards, Henk. -- ######################################################################### The difference between theory and practice in practice is bigger than the difference between theory and practice in theory. Henk de Groot | Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, JO32AF PE1DNN@PI8APD.#GLD.NLD.EU | NOKIA-ATF2, YAM Modem, Linux RedHat 5.2 --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org Questions regarding the SIG go to the SIG administrator: wa1lou@tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Wed Apr 11 19:18:03 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id TAA28947 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:18:02 -0500 (CDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 20:17:46 +0000 Subject: [aprsnews] 2001 Dayton APRS Web Page From: Stan Horzepa To: "APRS Announcements" Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio X-Message-Id: Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by tapr.org id TAA28947 The Dayton Hamvention is only five weeks away. It is the biggest congregation of hams in the U.S., if not the world, and the biggest congregation of APRS users, too. As a result, there is a lot going on APRS-wise at Dayton. So you won¹t miss a thing, there is now a new Web page (http://www.tapr.org/~wa1lou/2001/2001.html) that is intended to document APRS-related activities planned for the 2001 installment of the Hamvention. That page lists the following APRS-related information: - Forums that are APRS-related. - APRS-related companies, organizations, and individuals who will be camped out at some location in the Hara Arena or in the flea market. - Other APRS-related activities. - A list of your APRS compatriots who are planning to go to the Hamvention. Please email me (wa1lou@arrl.net) any additional information you may have regarding Dayton APRS activity. Here are some things I¹d like to add: - Where the APRS authors will be camped out. Is WB4APR going to be at the AMSAT booth as in the past? Where will the Sproul Bros. be this year? How about the rest of you APRS authors? - Is there going to be a Packet Bash or APRS Pizza Party this year? - If you are planning to go to Dayton, let me know and I will add you to the ³Who¹s going to Dayton² list. - Also, I would like to add some information on how to APRS in Dayton. Can somebody provide a description of the Dayton area APRS network and how to use it? Have Fun, Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org Questions regarding the SIG go to the SIG administrator: wa1lou@tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Wed Apr 11 19:47:07 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id TAA00986 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:47:06 -0500 (CDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 20:46:51 +0000 Subject: [aprsnews] Follow-up: 2001 Dayton APRS Web Page From: Stan Horzepa To: "APRS Announcements" Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio X-Message-Id: Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk I neglected to mention in my previous posting... To be added to the "Who's going to Dayton" list on the 2001 Dayton APRS Web Page, please send me your APRS callsign, name, home QTH, and optionally, a mugshot (a small jpg or gif). 73, Stan, WA1LOU --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org Questions regarding the SIG go to the SIG administrator: wa1lou@tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Fri Apr 13 13:42:51 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id NAA05259 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:42:47 -0500 (CDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 14:42:13 +0000 Subject: [aprsnews] 2001 Dayton APRS Web Page From: Stan Horzepa To: "APRS Announcements" Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio X-Message-Id: Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk The 2001 Dayton APRS Web Page (http://www.tapr.org/~wa1lou/2001/2001.html) has been updated with all your inputs that were received during the past 48 hours. It includes a list of 27 APRS folk who are planning to come to the Hamvention. If you want to be added to the list or if you have anything else to be added to the page, please email me. Stan, WA1LOU --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org Questions regarding the SIG go to the SIG administrator: wa1lou@tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Sun Apr 15 11:16:43 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id LAA27368 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 11:16:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: From: "Henk de Groot" To: "APRS Announcements" Subject: [aprsnews] DIGI_NED 0.2.6 Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 17:03:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio X-Message-Id: <00b201c0c5bd$fccc1d60$14214bd5@toshiba> Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I released a new version of DIGI_NED, version 0.2.6. This is an bugfix release for version 0.2.5. A error was discovered in the "trk" and "sat" queries which could hang a DOS system or cause a Segmentation fault in Linux. Thanks to Boris, OK1RQ, for quickly reporting this! While I'm at it I also fixed a problem with the UTC offset value in digi_ned.ini, the tracker only worked correctly under DOS when a TZ environment variable was present. Besides the bugfix a few touchups, like the ability to specify more then one satellite with the "trk" or "sat" queries. If you don't know what DIGI_NED is, it is a dedicated digipeater, does not have a GUI but is very stable and good at its job (If you disagree, tell me what's wrong and I fix it...). It runs in DOS on cheap 286 class PC's (or better) and on Linux using all kind of modems, from cheap BayCom/BayPack and YAM modem to KISS TNC's and SCC cards. It can have up to 8 ports so can also act as a cross-band digipeater. The source is published under the GPL licence. APRS. Let DIGI_NED tell you through APRS when a satellite will fly over in your area. Follow the sattelite on your map. DIGI_NED has a coordinated destination call which is world-wide assigned to DIGI_NED. All packets with "to" address APNDxx are originated by DIGI_NED. When tou see this you know which services you can expect from the digipeater! For telemetry activities with APRS and DIGI_NED take a look at the DIGI_NED telemetry APRS temperature measurement installation on: http://www.online-club.de/~burkhard-john/aprs_thermometer/index.html You can also reach this page via the DIGI_NED Techweb at the VrzApDxw/ DIGI_NET site (http://www.qsl.net/digi_ned). As usual the dos executable has been posted to APRS7@NLDNET on the HAM packetnetwork as DNEXE026.ZIP. The executable an the sources are now available on the Internet: http://www.qsl.net/digi_ned Here are the changes from the Changes.txt file: Changes.txt 14-04-2001 version 0.2.6 - Nasty bug in the "trk" and "sat" query, specifying more than one satellite caused a crash in the DOS version. Most Linux systems survived this out of array-bounds abuse. Now the logic is fixed and even enhanced! You can now supply more than 1 satellite on the "sat" and "trk" command, when using a 3 letter sat like ISS the digi will add the trailing "_" for you! Thanks to Boris, OK1RQ, for reporting this bug. Keep reporting bugs and ideas for enhancements! There is no guarantee that it will get implemented (but you can always do it yourself too) but without this input it will for sure not be implemented! - The UTC time-difference setting in digi_ned.ini did not work on DOS systems. On DOS either the environment variable TZ is used or if not available the setting in digi_ned.ini. The latter failed because even when TZ is not specified the Borland-library still provided a UTC time offset! As a result the reported satellites were ahead of time. Now it works. The value "digi_utc_offset:" is only used when no timezone information is provided by the system. Added information about this and about setting the TZ environment variable in the digi_ned.ini file. This one caused me a real headacke so it better be working now... - Keplersets updated up to the newewst 2 line elements received on the KEPLER@AMSAT packet area on the Dutch packet network. - Modification when a second station wants to track a satellite that is already being tracked. The previous version ignored this, now tracking is restarted. This way an object will appear soon and the tracking stops "track_duration:" minutes after the last received request (was after the first received request). Solves the problem that it sometimes looks that the digipeater does not respond to the "trk" command (it was already tracking but the next object deposit could take a while). APRS[tm] is a Trademark of Bob Bruninga, his home page is at "http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs.html" Kind regards, Henk. -- ######################################################################### The difference between theory and practice in practice is bigger than the difference between theory and practice in theory. Henk de Groot | Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, JO32AF PE1DNN@PI8APD.#GLD.NLD.EU | NOKIA-ATF2, YAM Modem, Linux RedHat 5.2 --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org Questions regarding the SIG go to the SIG administrator: wa1lou@tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Tue Apr 17 14:08:45 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id OAA24895 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:08:42 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: From: "Henk de Groot" To: "APRS Announcements" Subject: [aprsnews] DIGI_NED 0.2.7 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:53:14 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio X-Message-Id: <009d01c0c771$85098780$a3204bd5@toshiba> Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk Hello again! I released a new version of DIGI_NED, version 0.2.7. This is an bugfix release for version 0.2.6. A bug was found in the DOS version which could cause rapid transmission of SAT objects. Another timing problem. For background: The problem with DOS is that there is no timezone handling. You can set the TZ environment value but also use the digi_utc_offset: rule if the TZ string is not present. The problem is that this offset is read after the timers for the beacons are allready started. Therefore the timer functions in 0.2.6 use local-time in DOS now which fixed a problem with the beacon timing. Unfortunatly the AOS time, which is in UTC, was used directly with the internal timer structure, which caused in some cases immediate expiration when UTC is behind your time, resulting in a lot of sat Object transmissions. In Linux all the timers work in UTC and therefore there is not problem with Linux. I verified this bug is fixed now, hopefully this is the last one. If not then I think I will throuw out the "digi_utc_offset:" rule because that is causing all these timer problems. If you don't know what DIGI_NED is, it is a dedicated digipeater, does not have a GUI but is very stable and good at its job (If you disagree, tell me what's wrong and I fix it...). It runs in DOS on cheap 286 class PC's (or better) and on Linux using all kind of modems, from cheap BayCom/BayPack and YAM modem to KISS TNC's and SCC cards. It can have up to 8 ports so can also act as a cross-band digipeater. The source is published under the GPL licence. APRS. Let DIGI_NED tell you through APRS when a satellite will fly over in your area. Follow the sattelite on your map. DIGI_NED has a coordinated destination call which is world-wide assigned to DIGI_NED. All packets with "to" address APNDxx are originated by DIGI_NED. When tou see this you know which services you can expect from the digipeater! For telemetry activities with APRS and DIGI_NED take a look at the DIGI_NED telemetry APRS temperature measurement installation on: http://www.online-club.de/~burkhard-john/aprs_thermometer/index.html You can also reach this page via the DIGI_NED Techweb at the VrzApDxw/ DIGI_NET site (http://www.qsl.net/digi_ned). As usual the dos executable has been posted to APRS7@NLDNET on the HAM packetnetwork as DNEXE027.ZIP. The executable an the sources are now available on the Internet: http://www.qsl.net/digi_ned Here are the changes from the Changes.txt file: Changes.txt 16-04-2001 version 0.2.7 - You woun't believe it (I did not anyway), but there is another problem with timezone stuff. This time the value for nextaos was used wrongly in combination with in the timer functions. In DOS satellites were transmitted like crazy when tracking, depending on how far AOS for the satellite is. Solved now hopefully. - Read the latest TLE data from the Packet network. APRS[tm] is a Trademark of Bob Bruninga, his home page is at "http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs.html" Kind regards, Henk. -- ######################################################################### The difference between theory and practice in practice is bigger than the difference between theory and practice in theory. Henk de Groot | Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, JO32AF PE1DNN@PI8APD.#GLD.NLD.EU | NOKIA-ATF2, YAM Modem, Linux RedHat 5.2 --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org Questions regarding the SIG go to the SIG administrator: wa1lou@tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Tue Apr 17 21:14:33 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id VAA13691 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:14:30 -0500 (CDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:13:49 -0400 Subject: [aprsnews] 2001 Dayton APRS Web Page update From: Stan Horzepa To: "APRS Announcements" Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio X-Message-Id: Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk I updated the 2001 Dayton APRS Web Page tonight (http://www.tapr.org/~wa1lou/2001/2001.html). The update has news about the APRS Pizza Party and the Who's Going To Dayton? list now has 80 entries. Send any and all inputs to me and I will get them on the page ASAP. 73, Stan, WA1LOU --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org Questions regarding the SIG go to the SIG administrator: wa1lou@tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Thu Apr 19 06:59:45 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id GAA03098 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 06:59:36 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 06:05:46 -0500 From: James Smith Organization: Tri-State APRS Working Group \ Chairman X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "APRS Announcements" CC: TAPR Subject: [aprsnews] Re: 8th annual Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio X-Message-Id: <3ADEC68A.76D61C13@tawg.org> Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk Hello All, Everyone is welcome to join us this yr. for the 8th. Annual APRS Eyeball during the Dayton Hamvention. Again this yr. it will be held at Marion's Piazza. Date: Saturday May 19th. Time: Time: 6 P.M. - ?? Address: 3443 N. Dixie Dr. Dayton, OH... Location Map: Can be viewed at this site http://www.tapr.org/~wa1lou/2001/pizzamap.jpg . Thanks goes to Stan WA1LOU on the excellent job on the map. You can also get the information from the APRS booth located in spots 151-155.. If you haven't had to stop by Stan's site please do so now. http://www.tapr.org/~wa1lou/2001/2001.html Hope to see everyone there, if you have any questions just drop me a email. -- 73, James, K9APR Chairman \ Coordinator Tri-State APRS Working Group http://www.tawg.org Run a APRS Website? Why not join the APRS Webring. http://www.tawg.org/join.htm --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org Questions regarding the SIG go to the SIG administrator: wa1lou@tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Fri Apr 20 12:24:28 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id MAA29315 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:24:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:18:17 +0000 From: Dr Tom Clark Organization: NASA/GSFC X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "APRS Announcements" CC: amsat-dc@AMSAT.Org, garc-bb@garc-fs.gsfc.nasa.gov, simsat@listserv.gsfc.nasa.gov, aprsnews@lists.tapr.org, pat@patkilroy.com, aa3rr@arrl.net, bod@AMSAT.Org Subject: [aprsnews] Re: [amsat-dc] AMSAT-DC "Official Record" and Photograph References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010406154400.00a3a0d0@pop700.gsfc.nasa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio X-Message-Id: <3AE06F59.D6BE31F2@aleph.gsfc.nasa.gov> Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk Pat Kilroy wrote: > > I just posted our "official" summary and a group photo from > last Sunday afternoon's gathering on our AMSAT-DC web site: > > http://simsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssamsatdc.html > I had forgotten to post my "unofficial" pictures. They can be seen and fetched from http://aleph.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/AMSAT/index.htm To anticipate a few questions -- the camera is a 3+ megapixel Nikon 990. In the darkened room some of the pictures were underexposed, but I leave it up to you to do any editing you want on them. My file naming sequence is yymmdd##.jpg so all the photos have names like 010401xx.jpg. The "wierd" pictures were taken with a supplementary Nikon fish-eye lens. AA3RR may enjoy the photo-op in 01040115.jpg I have also included the PowerPoint version of my Curmudgeonly Clark's Scaling Laws paper for those who requested. Click on the title slide in the bottom row. 73, Tom --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org Questions regarding the SIG go to the SIG administrator: wa1lou@tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Mon Apr 23 18:49:19 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id SAA10302 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:49:16 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:17:42 -0400 From: John Ackermann N8UR To: "APRS Announcements" Subject: [aprsnews] PACK*BASH at the 2001 Dayton Hamvention Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio X-Message-Id: <3697382.988053462@[192.168.1.26]> Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk ** ** ** Yes, there will be a PACK*BASH this year! Things were a bit uncertain for a while as we just learned that our traditional site would not be available this year. But we've found a very good alternative, and we invite you to attend the 2001 PACK*BASH. If you'd like to attend, please contact the TAPR office as described below. ---- What? An event for the digitally-inclined ham, featuring: * Buffet dinner * Keynote Address (Speaker to be named) * TAPR special interest group meetings * "Birds of a Feather" gatherings When? Friday evening, May 18, 2001 Doors open at 7:00 pm; dinner served at 7:30 pm Speaker and meetings after dinner Where? *** NEW LOCATION *** The NCR "Sugarcamp" facility that we've used in the past is no longer available. Instead, we'll be at Kohler's Banquet Center, 4548 Presidential Way, Kettering (39 40.75N, 84 08.43W), just south of East David Road between Far Hills Ave. and Wilmingon Pike. Maps available on the TAPR web site (www.tapr.org) or at the TAPR booth. How? Dinner requires advance registration and payment through TAPR. Tickets will be available at the TAPR booth on Friday, though we strongly encourage registration Hamvention. The cost is $25.00 per person, tax and tip included. All amateurs are welcome to attend, enjoy the speaker, and particpate in the meetings, although only those purchasing a dinner can eat. To register, contact: PACK*BASH c/o TAPR 8987-309 E. Tanque Verde Road #337 Tucson, AZ 85749-9399 Phone: (940) 383-0000 Fax: (940) 566-2544 Internet: tapr@tapr.org Visa/Mastercard Accepted Who? PACK*BASH is co-sponsored by TAPR -- Tucson Amateur Packet Radio, the national leader in digital communication -- and the Miami Valley FM Association, Dayton's packet radio club. For more information (including maps), go to http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/dayton.html, or send email to tapr@tapr.org. --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org Questions regarding the SIG go to the SIG administrator: wa1lou@tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Thu Apr 26 09:31:48 2001 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id JAA11349 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:31:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: Subject: [aprsnews] Dayton Hamfest: APRS at the TAPR Digital Forum Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:26:28 -0400 x-sender: sdimse@earthlink.net From: Steve Dimse To: "APRS Announcements" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio X-Message-Id: <200104261426.HAA04969@harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk Once again I have been handed the utterly impossible task of covering all of APRS in 45 minutes within the TAPR Digital Forum on Friday. Without announcement I have already received four requests for time. In previous years, I tried to do a "What's New" sort of presentation myself, but this year I will let people speak for themselves...here are the ground rules: 1. Anyone that wants to talk should email me directly (k4hg@tapr.org) with a request, giving presenter's name, callsign, and topic. The deadline for requests will be 0000z on May 5th. NO EXCEPTIONS! 2. Given that the requests already total more than the allocated 45 minutes, time will be split evenly among all who request. If any presentations run short, there will be a general Q&A period afterwards. NO EXCEPTIONS! 3. Given the problems that usually occur when trying to connect laptops to the projector at presentations, no computers will be allowed. If you have something you want to show off, create a handout to be passed out prior to the presentation. NO EXCEPTIONS! 4. I will be very strict about time, I will notify the speakers in advance of the time per presentation. Time will start from when you are announced, not when you get to the front and start talking, so get there early and sit in front if you want to maximize your time. I suggest you practice to get it all in within your allocated time. NO EXCEPTIONS! 5. No yielding of allocated time (I.e. don't bother getting 5 of your buddies to request time so you can talk longer). NO EXCEPTIONS! 6. If you ask for time, and then can't make it, please let me know as soon as possible so that I can adjust the schedule. 7. It would good to announce where you will be later in the day for questions, since there will be little if any time for questions to be fielded at the time. Sorry for the rules, but this is hard enough to do in a 6 hour format at the DCC, 45 minutes is really tough. I'd like a volunteer or two to help distribute handouts so we can minimize disruptions. Steve K4HG [Please forward this to any APRS-related lists I miss] --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org Questions regarding the SIG go to the SIG administrator: wa1lou@tapr.org