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On 12/7/2011 9:20 PM, Andrew P. wrote:
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It happens that I am a professional software engineer, and
employed for that purpose. That means that I had to sign an
employment agreement granting all ownership rights in any
software I create to my employer, whether I create the software
at work or on my own time, and whether or not it has anything to
do with my employer's business. I am currently in negotiations
with the Legal department at my employer to get them to assign
the rights to YAAC back to me, so I can release it under the
LGPL.. Looks like it's going to happen, but they aren't in any
hurry (no profit in it for them). I'll let everyone know as soon
as I own my software; I hope it's done before Legal goes on
vacation for the holidays.<br>
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I'm seriously glad I left a similar company back in 1995 and now
have my own company with a single partner. Otherwise, I'd have to
have gone through the same thing with APRSISCE/32.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">In the meantime, I've bombproofed the code a little
more and spent more time writing the online help. Thanks for the
suggestion, Lynn, to use a full APRS-IS feed for load-testing.
Seems it takes a lot of CPU horsepower to process an entire
hemisphere's real-time APRS traffic, but I'm able to keep up
now. Or are the garbaged packets I'm getting caused by circular
buffer overflow in the APRS-IS Tier 2 server I'm connected to
because I'm back-pressuring?<br>
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Anything's possible, but if you have an hourly packet counter on a
full feed you should see rates like (for the past 8 hours) 125k,
126k, 131k, 131k, 133k, 132k, 131k, 132k where k=1000 packets.
Firenet.us runs more, between 145k and 153k. These are both with a
connection to port 10152.<br>
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But there ARE concatenated packets running around on the APRS-IS.
I've got a Concat trace log that shows me suspect ones and why it
suspects them. It's not yet detecting all of them, but at least it
keeps entire packets from showing up as part of a message body.<br>
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Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32<br>
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Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO<br>
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<div>> From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:andrewemt@hotmail.com">andrewemt@hotmail.com</a><br>
> To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br>
> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:20:31 +0000<br>
> Subject: [aprssig] How to get new software evaluated???<br>
> <br>
> Greetings, all (especially WB4APR).<br>
> <br>
> As promised, I have a first (very early) cut of my new
APRS application (currently code-named YAAC, for "Yet Another
APRS Client" :-) waiting to be pounded on by experts in the
field. It is not ready for full release quite yet (still have
some source code clean-up and a few missing sub-features to
add), but I would like to know if I'm doing the right thing or
have majorly stumbled down the wrong path in my development
efforts.<br>
> <br>
> So, I'd be interested in having Bob (and any others in
the core of APRS development who are interested and have the
time) take a whack at using my app, and tell me where I need
to improve and/or correct it before I let it out to the
general public.<br>
> <br>
> How is this sort of thing done here? I'm not ready to
hand out source code yet (the innards aren't stable enough to
have others tinker yet), but I can easily ship a zip file that
unpacks a runnable distribution. <br>
> <br>
> Known working platforms are Windows XP (NTFS filesystems
only, for some weird reason) and Fedora Core Linux (releases
13 and 15, with a hack needed on 15). It should work on any
32-bit Windows or Linux distro with Java installed, and
theoretically should work on MacOSX too. It can listen to
APRS-IS servers, and both receive and transmit through KISS
(or KISSable by TNC2 command) TNC's, and listen to Kenwood
radios in APRS mode (Kenwood firmware doesn't seem to allow
transmitting APRS from the radio and a computer
simultanously). It also works with NMEA 0183-compliant GPS
receivers (not yet with gpsd in the way). App configuration is
done inside the app with a configuration GUI; no need to
hand-edit config files.<br>
> <br>
> So, how do I get some initial alpha-test field feedback?<br>
> <br>
> Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO<br>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry<br>
> <br>
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