[Xastir] Xastir and SAR

[Alan Crosswell]

I like this.  We've been using it with UIview to label or vehicles.  I 
would also like the ability to *not* send over the air in the future 
when you add the aprs+ compat.  I don't necessarily want to advertise 
tac calls.
/a

Curt Mills wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Alan Crosswell wrote:
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>>My club has been using APRS a lot (not with Xastir actually but with UIView:-)
>>to track vehicles in nuke plant drills, walkathons, bikeathons, etc.  We've been
>>asked to do an APRS class for a regional SAR conference in September and while
>>I'm comfortable teaching APRS I am not comfortable with the SAR aspects.  I know
>>there's been a lot of development on Xastir to support SAR but haven't been
>>paying attention to that part of it.  I'd appreciate pointers on what I need to
>>learn or even nominations of people who could do a good job of teaching this in
>>the Catskill Mountains in NY in September.
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>New feature as of today:  You can assign a Tactical callsign to any
>station on the map via the right-click menu.  It can be up to 19
>chars long and contain spaces.  Assign one and that label will be
>displayed instead of the callsign.  Blank it out and the callsign
>will reappear for that station.  These are not transmitted in any
>way currently, but eventually I'd like to send the info out in the
>same format as APRS+ does, so we can share tactical labels across
>the air.
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>I'm going to use this feature to label Team 1, DogTeam 2, Tracker 3,
>Air 2, etc.
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