<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 2:57 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:la3qma@aprs.la" target="_blank">la3qma@aprs.la</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">was talking about APRX. I really do not understand why it's not possible to add a satellite option in the public release.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There's two problems:</div><div>1. Adding support for a new operation mode, adding tests to validate it, adding documentation for it to the user manual, and forever continuing to support the feature and ensuring that no future patch breaks this functionality is a lot of work.</div><div>2. I'm totally unconvinced that this feature is worth any effort just to make sure that people trying to work satellites can use the APRS-IS as an RF analysis tool. If you want proof that you've bounced a packet off a satellite, either complete a contact with another human and trade QSO cards, or take a photo of your radio showing your packet echo off the satellite and post it to Twitter. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">There are so many misconfigured digipeaters and probably also aprx and other igate software. Adding a satgate function is not going to break anything if some user activates this even if he should't. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd like to have someone set up an I-gate on 144.390 in sat-gate mode with a 30 second delay and see if anyone complains. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Just make it hard to activate this function ;-)</blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So I should be putting all this effort into implementing this feature, and then making the user experience for it suck because it's a mis-feature?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Kenneth Finnegan, W6KWF</div><div class="gmail_signature">Aprx developer<br><a href="http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/</a></div></div>
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