[Xastir] tactical call signs

[Jerry Wetherholt]

thanks fir the info. we have several months to set up. i personally use xastir and tnc where others using the opentracker plus but we are also thinking switching off freq to run a stand alone aprs network no igate running to jeep us more localized in the area for it

jerry
kf5aok


> On Mar 21, 2016, at 10:17 AM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just another note about this: It is more reliable to NOT have the APRS
> mobiles/portables change ANYTHING in their normal day-to-day settings to
> set up for a special event. If you ask them to, some percentage of them
> won't work properly for the event.
> 
> So the idea is to set a tactical callsign in Xastir or other APRS program
> and leave those mobiles/portables alone. Xastir will transmit the tactical
> callsigns over the air or through the internet to other Xastir stations,
> and that same tactical callsign will appear on all screens. I believe we
> are compatible with APRS+SA, and perhaps other APRS programs with respect
> to tactical callsign as well.
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Jason Godfrey <godfreja at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I will second the warning about overly generic names. It doesn't even need
>> the internet to be a problem. I was the APRS operator for an MS150 Bike
>> Ride when one of our SAGs started appearing about 50-60 miles west of our
>> route. Odd, but not far enough out to be impossible if a driver got lost
>> enough(*). I was probably receiving it over internet, but it was well
>> within my ALOHA circle. It turns out there was another event using SAGs
>> with APRS. Next year we added two more characters to our SSIDs.
>> 
>> - Jason
>> (*) - A few years before as a SAG communicator I had to call net control to
>> ask where we were. So it could happen :-)
>> 
>>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:39 AM Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If you're talking tactical callsigns that you put into the callsign field
>>> on the tracker itself, it must be up to six uppercase letters and/or
>>> numbers plus an optional -0 to -15 SSID (nothing in SSID equals -0).
>>> 
>>> Stay away from super generic callsigns like "LEAD", "TAIL", etc, so they
>>> don't conflict with someone else's tactical calls that day running a
>>> different event across the world. That way you won't have a conflict for
>>> anyone local who's following it with an internet-only connection, plus
>>> findu.com and aprs.fi won't ping-pong between the multiple events
>> either.
>>> 
>>> If you're talking about tactical callsigns assigned at the receiving side
>>> (and optionally re-transmitted to other APRS programs) then there are
>>> different rules, perhaps also different between different APRS programs.
>>> For instance you can assign Upper/Lower-case and numbers, probably some
>>> punctuation as well, up to 57 characters in Xastir using that method.
>>> 
>>> Good luck. I hope your event goes very well!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Jerry Wetherholt <
>>> mrfixit2003_975 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> its been a while since i did mods to aprs. what is a good format for
>>>> tactical call signs? we are going to be hosting bike ride upcomming
>>> months
>>>> and didnt know what we could use that would work on any aprs maps. we
>>> plan
>>>> on haveing things like lead vehicle, sag wagons and checkpoints. any
>>>> suggestions on how to format it in place of callsign on track units. we
>>>> have different makes open trackers and kpc setups
>>>> 
>>>> jerry
>>>> kf5aok
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