[Xastir] Hardware Name

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 07:39:03AM +0200, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <mynixmail at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> I am aware of the different hardware APXXX numbers ... was just thinking of
> adding an extra few things to it ... lol ...

But you're not going to accomplish that and have it show up as the "Device"
name on aprs.fi.

If you want to add extra things, you have to do it in the comment string.

> On Dec 12 15, Tom Russo :
> > To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at xastir.org>
> > Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 09:19:58 -0700
> > From: Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Hardware Name
> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30)
> > X-BeenThere: xastir at lists.xastir.org
> > 
> > On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 12:29:12PM +0200, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <mynixmail at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 
> > > How would I change the "Device" as reported on aprs.fi ... currently it shows up
> > > as: "Open Source:Xastir (Software Linux/Unix) ...
> > 
> > This is not your "hardware name", it is taken from the "TOCALL" in the APRS 
> > position report.  You don't get to change it.  Bob Bruninga maintains a list 
> > of these TOCALLs, which are unique to a program or device.  Xastir's, for 
> > example, is "APX" to which a version number is appended (e.g. APX207).  All 
> > aprs.fi is doing is looking up this string in the TOCALL list and printing 
> > what program produced it.
> > 
> > The other data from your APRS posits is used elsewhere on aprs.fi's pages, and
> > you can set that to whatever you want.  You can change your position 
> > comment (File->Configure->Station) to put the kind of information you 
> > want in there.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
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> >  echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m]
> > 
> >  
> > 
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Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236        http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
 echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m]