[Ham-Mac] APRS for Mac OSX

[Dennis Hudson]

On Dec 19, 2003, at 1:39 AM, John Rollins wrote:

>> 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.

Compiling Xastir is a piece of cake. There are a couple of step by step 
web pages out there. I wouldn't hold my breath for X-APRS. I don't 
think there has been an update in 4 or 5 years. Xastir gets updated 
almost daily. It is the future of reliable APRS software.



> 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.
>

This is darn close to what you are asking for.


http://www.tnc-x.com