<p>John,</p>
<p>I appreciate your fine work on <a href="http://www.aprs-alert.net">www.aprs-alert.net</a> and use it daily, along with others in the Kansas city area.</p>
<p>Steve<br>
AB5ID</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 30, 2011 10:10 AM, "John Gorkos" <<a href="mailto:jgorkos@gmail.com">jgorkos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> I just wanted to do a little self-promotion and give folks who are interested <br>
> in updates on my coding projects.<br>> <br>> AVRS-<br>> I'm working with the AllStar author to add AllStar nodal information along <br>> with the existing IRLP and EchoLink data. This will give us a third <br>
> interconnect network to chose from.<br>> The following commands are currently working when you send an APRS message to <br>> "AVRS":<br>> ? - will return the CLOSEST VOIP gateway node (either IRLP or Echolink, and <br>
> soon allstar) to your last beaconed position<br>> ?E - returns the Echolink node info for the node closest to your last beaconed <br>> position<br>> ?I - returns the IRLP node info for the node closest to your last beaconed <br>
> position<br>> ?A - returns the Allstar node info for the node closest to your last beaconed <br>> position (probably next week some time, doesn't work yet)<br>> <br>> ?<callsign> - returns the CLOSEST VOIP gateway node (either IRLP or Echolink, <br>
> and soon allstar) to <callsign's> last beaconed position<br>> I hope to add ?<callsign>/[E|I|A] soon, but I've got other work to do first.<br>> <br>> LOCATE -<br>> A new service added by the AVRS daemon is the "LOCATE" service. Sending a <br>
> message to "LOCATE" will result in the server sending you a message with a <br>> plain-English description of the last known position for the target. For <br>> example, if I send a message from my home station (AB0OO) to "LOCATE" with "?" <br>
> as the body, I get this:<br>> AVRS>APZ013,TCPIP*::AB0OO :AB0OO heard 0d0h1m54s ago 9.75km E of Sugar <br>> Hill, GA{0<br>> <br>> If I send one to LOCATE with "WB4APR-3" in the body, I get this:<br>
> AVRS>APZ013,TCPIP*::AB0OO :Wb4APR-3 heard 0d0h7m35s ago .98km SW of <br>> Annapolis, MD{0<br>> <br>> I'm working on a SAT server, too, where you can send a query to "SAT" with ? <br>> for the params of the next satellite pass over your location, or ?[SATNAME] to <br>
> specify a satellite. That's a few weeks out, but I DO have working* Java <br>> code for satellite prediction.<br>> <br>> APRS-Alert-<br>> The <a href="http://www.aprs-alert.net">http://www.aprs-alert.net</a> website is ticking along nicely, I think. I'm <br>
> not getting ANY feedback on it, so it works great, no one is using it, or no <br>> one care enough to complain. My current project for that is to constantly <br>> pull and parse Common Alerting Protocol data (i.e. NWS alerts/bulletins) and <br>
> give you the option to get a message with something like<br>> "AB0OO-9 has just entered an active tornado warning zone"<br>> <br>> There are still a few stability/memory issues plaguing the system. I'm doing <br>
> something stupid with large hashtables, and leaking memory somewhere. I try <br>> to check on the system every few hours, and restart it when necessary, but <br>> occassionally it will go 6 hours or so without me catching it. I can't really <br>
> automate the restarts, because I'm collecting core dumps when it dies.<br>> <br>> Anyway, feel free to play with the APRS toys I'm making. All the code is <br>> available at <a href="http://avrs.sf.net">http://avrs.sf.net</a> (sourceforge). If you want to help code, <br>
> please do. If you want to help test, my <a href="mailto:ab0oo@arrl.net">ab0oo@arrl.net</a> or <a href="mailto:jgorkos@gmail.com">jgorkos@gmail.com</a> <br>> addresses are the best places to get messages to me.<br>
> <br>> Thanks.<br>> John Gorkos<br>> <br>> * working code is defined as "it compiles and doesn't format my harddrive when <br>> I run it"<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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