Robert Bruninga wrote:
>> I have been transmitting club meetings and swapmeet
>> info as bulletins with the APRS Bulletin plugin
>> for UI-View that automates the transmission of
>> announcements...
>>
>
> Can you elaborate a bit on the timing. You mentioned the
> setting of the start and stop times. I wonder what kind or
> refresh rate the program uses.. And what kind of path. Is the
> path the same as the regular setting of the Uiview client, or
> something special just for the bulletins? Also, does this
> include objects?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob, WB4APR
>
>
The application, "APRS Events", is available from M0CYP's UI-View add-on
pages at:
<http://www.apritch.myby.co.uk/addon_misc.htm#aprsevents>
It actually doesn't depend on UI-View or it's settings at all. It is a
standalone application that uses the AGW Packet Engine as an interface
to access one or more TNCs. You specify a callsign and path completely
independently of UI-View.
Currently at my station, AGWpe is arbitrating access to both the HF and
VHF ports of a classic original KAM, and access to a second KPC3+. It
allows 4 copies of UI-View, UI-Traffic Monitor, UI-Network Analysis and
APRS Events to access/share both TNCs.
APRS Events is controlled by a text file "APRSevents.csv" that contains
lines like these (these are single lines that may wrap in email):
#2008-07-11 15:05:00#,#2008-07-12 10:00:00#,"Inland Empire ARC
Swapmeeet 8AM Sat - Cable Airport in Upland",28
#2008-07-21 15:05:00#,#2008-07-22 21:00:00#,"Pasadena ARC Meeting 7:00
PM Tuesday at Kaiser in Pasadena",28
#2008-07-25 15:05:00#,#2008-07-26 10:00:00#,"TRW Swapmeet Saturday
8:00 AM Manhattan Beach",28
The final set of digits is the repetition rate in minutes. I purposely
set the rep rate slightly faster than 30 minutes so that if my
"half-hourly" beacons happened to coincide with someone else's, the
beacons would gradually drift out of phase over time. The application
has a fill-in template to add events, but the user interface is so
clumsy and erratic when it comes to editing existing events that I find
it easier to edit the .CSV file directly outside of UI Events. (On most
Windows systems with MS Office installed, double-clicking the
APRSevents.csv file makes it open in an Excel spreadsheet where it is
neatly columnated and easy to edit. )
The application is hardwired to transmit in bulletin format. (I wish it
could transmit objects as well -- perhaps in a future revision it
will). It stores it's own path and originating callsign independent of
any other application using AGWpe.
I have set a single-hop path using the actual callsign of a single
digipeater (N6EX-1) that covers the area of interest (the San Gabriel
Valley -- the area between 5 and 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles
that includes Pasadena, Alhambra, Monterey Park, Arcadia, Monrovia, El
Monte, etc). This avoids setting off 4 or 5 digipeaters all over the
greater Los Angeles basin simultaneously with the generic WIDE2-2 path
normally used around here.
--
Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
EchoLink Node: 14400 [Think bottom of the 2M band]
Home Page: http://wa8lmf.com --OR-- http://wa8lmf.net
NEW! World Digipeater Map
http://wa8lmf.net/APRSmaps
JavAPRS Filter Port 14580 Guide
http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/JAVaprsFilters.htm
"APRS 101" Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating
http://wa8lmf.net/DigiPaths
Updated "Rev H" APRS http://wa8lmf.net/aprs
Symbols Set for UI-View,
UIpoint and APRSplus:
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