Thanks for covering this topic, Jason. I was speaking with a fellow ham in your neck of the woods and he had a vision for dropping APRS objects for flagging things like road hazards, accidents, police presence while driving. This was before apps like Waze were around. He wanted a one click interface to do this. Long story short, I’m adding a one-click button in the EmComm Tools app to do exactly this. Your use case is also covered. Personally, I’ll be using it to drop objects when I’m on summit or reach my campsite. I’m using YAAC with a custom API plugin I’m writing to make this happen. Keep up the excellent work!
Thanks, was looking for this. A nice option would be to have a time limit for the object, ie it disappears on its own after a week or month. edit: ok just read it is only active as long as xastir is running, still though.
Hi Jason Can you tell me if Objects Digipeat? We are trying to create temporary object to announce the club meeting. However our APRS network will not repeate. Not sure if im doing anything wrong.
Yes. Objects should digipeat. You can see a couple of objects that I have on the map right now. One for Field Day and one for our local club meetings. aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=11&call=a%2FField_Day&timerange=3600&tail=3600 aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=10&call=a%2FSRARC&timerange=3600&tail=3600
I'm in Nashville and was picking up his "Field Day" object via RF on my D710G and could view it on my surface go 2 running APRSISCE/32. So this is G2G for RF. 73 K5LWA
Thanks! But note that you have to do this from a client that will stay running as long as you want the object. I got it working last night, but I shut down my laptop for the night, it wend away from aprs.fi. When I booted up again and started xastir again, it came back on aprs.fi. I've got a build a pi that I'll set up, put up the object from there, and leave it running until at least after FD. Or, if there's something I'm not getting, please let me know.
Great video again! Thanks Jason. BTW. did you know that it is possible to open tcp connection only with the bash and then feed packets to aprs? I run a weather station like that and it all boils down to: echo "user $APRSID pass $APRSPWD vers VERSION THETIS" > /tmp/aprs echo "$APRSID>APRS,TCPIP*:=4958.61N/00814.38E&MZ-Bretzenheim-Wetter JN49CX (v1.0)" >> /tmp/aprs cat /tmp/aprs > /dev/tcp/$APRSSERVER/$APRSPORT You can search for DF6PA-13 on aprs.fi 73, Stephan. DF6PA
@nativetexan9776 What a selfish thing to say! I bet you never Elmer'ed anyone. What a crap attitude! That's not at all what ham radio is about. Everyone finds his/her own area of interest. This is all science and experimentation. It couldn't be a more exciting time for ham radio to be relevant. Maybe you long for the old days when only a few would use CW?
Thanks for covering this topic, Jason. I was speaking with a fellow ham in your neck of the woods and he had a vision for dropping APRS objects for flagging things like road hazards, accidents, police presence while driving. This was before apps like Waze were around. He wanted a one click interface to do this. Long story short, I’m adding a one-click button in the EmComm Tools app to do exactly this. Your use case is also covered. Personally, I’ll be using it to drop objects when I’m on summit or reach my campsite. I’m using YAAC with a custom API plugin I’m writing to make this happen. Keep up the excellent work!
That will be awesome!
Thanks, was looking for this. A nice option would be to have a time limit for the object, ie it disappears on its own after a week or month. edit: ok just read it is only active as long as xastir is running, still though.
Hi Jason
Can you tell me if Objects Digipeat? We are trying to create temporary object to announce the club meeting. However our APRS network will not repeate. Not sure if im doing anything wrong.
Yes. Objects should digipeat. You can see a couple of objects that I have on the map right now. One for Field Day and one for our local club meetings.
aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=11&call=a%2FField_Day&timerange=3600&tail=3600
aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=10&call=a%2FSRARC&timerange=3600&tail=3600
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Thanks 😊
Wish you were closer, i could use some elmering on this.
Great video, Jason! I’m going to get this set up for my club’s events
Helpful, Jason. Thank you!
Thank you
🤜🏻👍🤛🏻
Awesome idea Jason!!!
Man, the OMs are going to love this.
When you add objects in this way, do they get igated to RF or is this just purely for APRS-IS?
I'm in Nashville and was picking up his "Field Day" object via RF on my D710G and could view it on my surface go 2 running APRSISCE/32. So this is G2G for RF. 73 K5LWA
They will go out over both if Xastir is configured for internet and RF
A very clear and succinct explanation Jason. Many thanks. 73 Bruce G4ABX
Suc what?
Thanks! But note that you have to do this from a client that will stay running as long as you want the object. I got it working last night, but I shut down my laptop for the night, it wend away from aprs.fi. When I booted up again and started xastir again, it came back on aprs.fi. I've got a build a pi that I'll set up, put up the object from there, and leave it running until at least after FD.
Or, if there's something I'm not getting, please let me know.
Excellent point sir. Indeed you do need to leave the client running as it broadcasts the object out every so often.
Thanks for the great idea Jason!
Have you had much luck downloading maps to xastir to make it run faster/offline?
I haven't. If you need offline maps I recommend looking into YAAC instead. Much better experience for offline maps.
How long does an object stay visible if not deleted?
As long as you leave xastir running. If you close xastir it will disappear until the next time you launch xastir
You should use a more specific name - if someone else creates an object with that same name, you'll be fighting each other for it on the APRS-IS feed.
Good point and something I didn’t think of.
thanks for the video! It's pronounced " Zaster" btw... 😂
Great video again! Thanks Jason. BTW. did you know that it is possible to open tcp connection only with the bash and then feed packets to aprs? I run a weather station like that and it all boils down to:
echo "user $APRSID pass $APRSPWD vers VERSION THETIS" > /tmp/aprs
echo "$APRSID>APRS,TCPIP*:=4958.61N/00814.38E&MZ-Bretzenheim-Wetter JN49CX (v1.0)" >> /tmp/aprs
cat /tmp/aprs > /dev/tcp/$APRSSERVER/$APRSPORT
You can search for DF6PA-13 on aprs.fi
73, Stephan. DF6PA
I sure am going to miss Amateur Radio. Thank god I will be dead in a few short years and I don't have to witness its total demise.
Are you trying to say that internet has ruined ham radio?
@nativetexan9776 What a selfish thing to say! I bet you never Elmer'ed anyone. What a crap attitude! That's not at all what ham radio is about. Everyone finds his/her own area of interest. This is all science and experimentation. It couldn't be a more exciting time for ham radio to be relevant.
Maybe you long for the old days when only a few would use CW?