[aprssig] APRS+SA (v2.24) filter question

[Mark Earle]

At 06:07 AM 3/19/2005 -0800, you wrote:
 >I am not sure how you do it in APRS+, but in uiview you would send the
 >server "filter m/1700" without the quotes. It needs to see the word
 >filter. You can also connect to the 14580 server without trying to send
 >anything with the log on text, but then send a message to SERVER with
 >the message being, FILTER M/1700 and that should work also.

OK, I connected to 14580  then sent a message (ctrl-m) to server, with
filter r/27/-97/1800

This appears to be working.. should give me stations withing 1800km.

Thanks! I'm sure there's a way to do it in the aprserve.txt, but this will 
get me going for the day.

 >
 >--- Mark Earle <wa2mct at mearle.com> wrote:
 >> OK.. I have a line like this in the
 >> \aprs\data\aprserve.txt
 >>
 >> first.aprs.net 14580 /m1700
 >>
 >> This "should"? If I understand things give me positions within 1700km
 >> of my
 >> station, once I send a posit.
 >>
 >> It seems to send me nothing. Is there a trick to sending javaaprs
 >> filter
 >> commands with APRS+SA? This is the first time I've wanted to try
 >> this..
 >> usually I just connected to a "pre defined" filter port, with a line
 >> like this:
 >>
 >> first.aprs.net 14578
 >>
 >> That works fine but I need something that isn't predefined.
 >>
 >> Have googled and not really come up with the answer.
 >>
 >>
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