[aprssig] APRS propagation monitor

[Chris Howard w0ep]

I beg your pardon in advance for this intrusion
into the APRS world.

I have an old laptop, running a light weight flavor
of Debian Linux.  I am running soundmodem and successfully
seeing a bit of APRS traffic.

I am looking for some non-graphical tools which will
show me direction and distance for directly-heard
APRS stations.

I'd like the additional feature of being able to
set up alerts (email, text messages, ?) for arrival
of DX packets.

I am somewhat competent programming in perl and
less so in C and Java.  So libraries or
general tips are also appreciated.

Chris Howard
w0ep  EM53