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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sounds like a TinyTrak4 will do the
trick</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Packet audio in, serial plain text out into LINUX,
perl and MySQL . simple</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=archer@eskimo.com href="mailto:archer@eskimo.com">Curt, WE7U</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=aprssig@tapr.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 20, 2008 2:53
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [aprssig] Field
station</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, J. Lance Cotton wrote:<BR><BR>> On Fri,
Dec 19, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Andrew Rich <<A
href="mailto:vk4tec@tech-software.net">vk4tec@tech-software.net</A>>
wrote:<BR>>> No a Plain Text TNC or decoder<BR>><BR>> The API for
the linux ax.25 subsystem is documented and the source for<BR>> some
applications that use it (such as 'listen' command) are<BR>> available. It
shouldn't be too hard to write a simple application that<BR>> opens an
AX.25 device (connected to a KISS TNC) and dump the payload<BR>> of the
packet to a TCP/IP socket.<BR>><BR>> Or, since the KISS protocol is
relatively simple, just write a very<BR>> simple program that parses KISS
(code examples in Xastir) and dumps<BR>> the text of the payload to some
other port (like TCP/IP socket or<BR>> similar)<BR><BR>The code for
"listen" would be another good source, or perhaps the<BR>output of it could be
piped directly into his app that fill the<BR>database. Listen already
decodes the packets into human-readable<BR>format.<BR><BR>Also, isn't there a
program somewhere that simulates a command-mode<BR>TNC interface from an AX.25
KISS port? That might be all he needs,<BR>then his code just thinks it's
talking to a serial TNC.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot
com<BR><A
href="http://www.eskimo.com/~archer">http://www.eskimo.com/~archer</A><BR>
Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown<BR>Windows:
Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.<BR>The world DOES revolve
around me: I picked the coordinate
system!"<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>aprssig
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