Ok, for a bit of background and description of this. It exists
because I was working with JT65 a few years ago and wanted a way
to visualize the gridsquares of the stations I was copying. So I
implemented in my favorite position mapping and display tool,
APRSIS32. Here's what I posted when this support was originally
implemented for JT65 on 8/8/2012 8:39PM:
Ok, here's the feature that I mentioned earlier today. This is NOT the
final implementation, but I'm releasing it in this form to solicit feedback.
If you use JT65-HF, then you should have a JT65hf-log.csv somewhere.
You can tell where it's at via JT65-HF's Setup / Configuration tab at
the bottom labeled "Location of RX/TX history file". Make a note of
that as you'll need to navigate to it to set up the JT65 visualizer object.
Kick it all off with Configure / Objects / New JT65
Confirm Yes to Create JT65 Object At ME (the only place you can create it)
A file browser dialog will appear asking you to locate the
JT65hf-log.csv file. When you find the proper directory and file, click
Open.
In the Object dialog, you'll want to check Enabled. The default name is
<yourcall>-JT and the default symbol is DX (primary table %). Whatever
-SSID you give the object will be added to the JT65 spot callsigns when
their objects are created (-JT is used if you don't specify an -SSID).
The symbol of this object is also used to create the spots.
The only other functioning control in this configuration is the Reset
checkbox. If you check that, then on the next update, ALL of the spots
are processed instead of only the new ones. Of course, spots older than
<Stations.MaxAge> aren't loaded no matter what, but Reset is a handy way
to pull in more spots if you've increased <Stations.MaxAge> across a
restart.
When you Accept the new object, you should see a series of <callsign>-JT
(or your object's -SSID) show up in the packet scroller as internal
packets. And your map should show them as a grid-square ambiguous
stations (purple rectangle). If you have too many and you're using a
new instance, you may have to increase Configure / Screen / Label / Max
Visible to see them. You'll probably also want Screen / Labels /
Callsign checked to be most useful.
If you want to see ONLY the JT65 objects, you should have a View /
Shrieks / !JT65! that will filter the view. Kind of handy in a
MultiTrack if you're doing this in an instance that's also getting an
APRS-IS feed. I bring up a MultiTrack on my own -JT object and save it
as "Always".
Oh, and Configure / Messages / Lookup(WHO-IS) / Full Address is also a
handy thing to check for quick full lookups of a *-JT station.
For those of you that do JT65, let me know what you think. For the rest
of you, please pardon the distraction, but this is a test bed for some
of the other future visualization features that will be more directly
related to APRS.
Well, that was longer than I expected and I'm not sure how much,
if any of it, changed since then. But that's the gist of it.
What's new is the ability to process the ALL.TXT files from
JS8Call and FT8 the same way. The default -SSIDs for the objects
are different (-J8 and -F8), and they are #hashes instead of
!shriek!s. JT65 objects remain as !JT65! however.
Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE
for Windows Mobile and Win32
On 4/27/2020 1:58 PM, Arnold Harding. -
KQ6DI wrote:
Due to the plethora of emails I can tell this is vitally
important in APRS, but can someone explain where and what this
is? Thanks.
Arnold, KQ6DI
1) New support for JS8Call and FT8 log-scraping objects.
This is
similar to the JT65 scraper that already existed. Simply create
new
object of the appropriate type and point it to your ALL.TXT log
file for
the corresponding program. Object will be created for any
detected
station for which a grid square is available. These are objects
local to
your instance only.