{"id":2653,"date":"2012-05-28T17:42:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T22:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2012-05-28T17:42:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T22:42:52","slug":"aprs-soundmodem-xastir-and-recovery-of-old-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2653","title":{"rendered":"APRS, soundmodem, xastir and recovery of old info"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: Watson Road]<\/p>\n

We had a good Memorial Day today.\u00a0 Had the relatives over to our house and had a great time.\u00a0 There were 10 of us in the house and everyone got along ok.\u00a0 That’s a nice thing.<\/p>\n

I spent some time yesterday and again today on my ham radio laptop.\u00a0 This thing is an old IBM Thinkpad from 1999-2000.\u00a0 It has less than 200K of memory.\u00a0 I’m running a light version of Debian Linux on it called antiX.\u00a0 It doesn’t have enough memory to run a browser, but it will run an X-window desktop without too much trouble.<\/p>\n

I’ve been getting more into VHF CW\/SSB and I wanted to have a means to see if the band is open to longer distance conversations.\u00a0 So I decided to install APRS software so that I could receive APRS location packets and map them on my screen.\u00a0 That would show me what directions are open from this location.<\/p>\n

I am using the internal sound card and a program called soundmodem to do the TNC\/demodulating chores.\u00a0 Then I am using the xastir program to do the mapping.<\/p>\n

I’ve done all of this before.\u00a0 I couldn’t remember how I had done it. But I did remember that I made note of it in a posting to a usenet bulletin board.\u00a0 Today I found that posting<\/a> with google groups.\u00a0 Followed the info there, and sure enough, it works.<\/p>\n

I really like having the internet around.<\/p>\n

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