[aprssig] Messaging breakout (xastir)

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Andrew Rich wrote:

> I have found a solution to my messaging issue.
>
> I found I can use xastir as the HQ computer, and because messages sent to
> xastir appear on the local port 2023, it makes it REALLY easy to then use
> xastir to take care of the acks, and just use perl to grab data off port2023

Theoretically that should work with most of the APRS client apps, at
least the ones that provide a server port.  I think several of them
do.

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