[aprssig] Version 1.13 of APRS-SCS available

[kb2scs at optonline.net]

Hi All
           Version 1.13 of APRS-SCS is now on line and ready for your 
down loading pleasure. Please go to
http://www.tapr.org/~kb2scs/

Here is whats new in 1.13
Version 1.13 
Incorporated the IGATE Feature into APRS-SCS 
Thank You Pete AE5PL for answering the questions I had. 
APRS-SCS can have a receive only IGATE (An IGATE that only sends what 
it receives on RF to the APRS-IS) 
Or a Bidirectional IGATE. (An IGATE that also sends messages it 
receives via the APRS-IS to RF.) 
The Bidirectional IGATE can be configured to only send messages to RF 
that are for stations that have 
been heard direct or one hop or 2 hops. 
Also the Bidirectional IGATE has a hold off feature. The user can 
configure the Bidirectional IGATE 
to hold off sending a message to RF from zero to sixty seconds. If 
during this hold off time period 
the IGATE hears another IGATE send the same message to RF then APRS-
SCS will not send the message to RF. 
APRS-SCS IGATE Buddy Feature: 
The Buddy Feature can be configured to send to RF stations position 
packets that the user has selected. 
These Buddy position packets are only sent with a direct path. The 
direct path is hard coded and is 
not user configurable. 
APRS-SCS IGATE National Weather Messages Feature: 
APRS-SCS allows the user to select National Weather Messages to be 
transmitted on RF. 
Theses messages are transmitted using the IGATES Default Path. 
The Wx messages feature can transmit group items. You do this by not 
entering 
the full call sign. For example the letters KB2 entered into the Wx 
Message list would 
cause APRS-SCS to transmit all Wx Messages starting off with KB2 to 
be transmitted to 
RF. 
Coding the new IGATE Feature made it so I had to fix the DIGI form in 
APRS-SCS. 
In the past the digi form contained the latest digi path. This path 
would not be the shortest path 
that the packet took to reach this station. 
Now APRS-SCS shows the true path that a packet took to reach this 
station.


Let us hope we never witness the "Silence Of The Hams"
73 DE John  KB2SCS
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