[Xastir] APRS with non APRS equiped stations ?

[William McKeehan]

I have expanded the script a bit. It now has:
1. Some commands that you can enter in while it is running (like ls to list
stations, ll to list locations, sign to create signpost objects, reload to
reload the location and station dat files);
2. Command line arguments for things like callsign, callpass, location.dat and
stations.dat filenames, etc.;
3. Station aliases; and
4. Speed entered in MPH and converted to knots.

And I have a short write-up about it too. It is on my web server at
http://mckeehan.homeip.net/amateurradio/APRS/aprstracker.htm

Now to figure out how to remember the station's last position and calculate
speed and direction based on the last position, current position and next
position.

On Thu, December 16, 2004 9:03 am, William McKeehan said:
> Well...
>
> After thinking about this for a bit, I sat down and wrote a bit of Perl script
> (see the attached files).
>
> It takes a locations.dat in the format of
>   LOCATION ID,Lat,Lon
> with Lat and Lon in the typical APRS format of DDMM.MMN. ID should be unique.
>
> It takes a stations.dat file in the format of
>   STATION ID,Icon
> Icon is not yet used and i want to expand this to allow for aliases.
>
> With these files in place, when you run the program, it reads the
> locations.dat and stations.dat; creates a signpost object for each location
> and then waits for user input. The user input is in the format of
>   STATION ID,LOCATION ID, SPEED, COURSE, COMMENTS
> It will then create (or move) an object to the new location with given
> course/speed.
>
> You will want to update test.pl to point to your Xastir server (the server
> port must be enabled for this to work) and update for your callsign/callpass.
>
> To execute this, extract all three files to some directory. In a command
> window (or shell), cd to this directory and execute "perl test.pl".
>
> With the sample data provided, you can watch what it will do by entering the
> following lines in one at a time:
> WJMJEEP,21,,,21
> WJMJEEP,41,,,41
> WJMJEEP,61,,,61
> WJMJEEP,81,,,81
> WJMJEEP,101,,,101
> WJMJEEP,121,,,121
> WJMJEEP,141,,,141
> WJMJEEP,161,,,161
> WJMJEEP,181,,,181
> WJMJEEP,201,,,201
> WJMJEEP,221,,,221
> WJMJEEP,241,,,241
> WJMJEEP,261,,,261
> WJMJEEP,281,,,281
> WJMJEEP,301,,,301
> WJMJEEP,321,,,321
> WJMJEEP,341,,,341
> WJMJEEP,361,,,361
> WJMJEEP,381,,,381
> WJMJEEP,401,,,401
> WJMJEEP,421,,,421
> WJMJEEP,441,,,441
> WJMJEEP,461,,,461
> WJMJEEP,481,,,481
> WJMJEEP,501,,,501
> WJMJEEP,521,,,521
> WJMJEEP,541,,,541
> WJMJEEP,561,,,561
>
> I will probably improve this over the next few weeks...if you have any
> comments/suggestions, please let me know.
>
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> William McKeehan
> KI4HDU
> Internet: mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net
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William McKeehan
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