[Ham-Mac] APRS for Mac OSX

[John Rollins]

>Xastir (which runs under X) is an excellent, full-featured APRS 
>program for Mac OSX. For details and download info see the Mac Ham 
>Radio software listings at:

Too bad it's a source dist, I imagine that will scare away most of 
the people that don't know how to use the terminal or don't have 
previous unix experience. Looks like a good program, but it took me a 
moment to figure out why it wasn't seeing any maps(read the readmes! 
doh). There is also X-APRS for Linux, almost identical to 
MacAPRS/WinAPRS, although it will almost certainly need some work 
before being compiled for MacOS X.

I wonder how long it will be until we see some USB TNC's... It would 
be wonderful to see one with a small hub built in, then you could 
plug a USB GPS into the TNC and everything could talk to everything.

But for now it's serial only, and I'm wondering how well the serial 
TNC's work with MacOS X and say a Keyspan serial adapter. I must say 
I'm glad to see serial port options in Xastir and support for other 
than 8N1 setups, since my MFJ TNC uses 7E1, which has been a problem 
in getting it working on my Windows laptop.

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