[Xastir] tactical call signs

[Jerry Wetherholt]

thanks for info on aprsisce but i have had issues getting mine to work. it kinda got pushed back to back burner with the xastir units i have running. the possiblity of windows based aprs is intriguing but xastir has been for the most part robust. if i could get my aprsisce to work i might use it in future. 

jerry
kf5aok


> On Mar 21, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) <ldeffenb at homeside.to> wrote:
> 
> APRSISCE/32 can optionally accept TACTICAL messages over the air or via the APRS-IS and processes them internally as NickNames.  It does not yet transmit TACTICAL definitions.
> 
> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
> 
>> On 3/21/2016 11:17 AM, Curt Mills 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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>>>> 
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