[pskmail] l "Western hemisphere bug" - fixed !!
- From: Robert Krasowski <rkrasowski@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:38:52 -0800 (PST)
Thanks Rein for moving me out of China, it was nice to be there but I am glad
to be back home.... joke
It works great now, it reads GPS correctly. Now should I travel to Brasil to
check for southern hemisphere?? HI HI
Thanks very much for all your work,
Appreciated
73
Robert
KB2PNM
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From: Rein Couperus <rein@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 10:12 AM
Subject: [pskmail] Re: GPS and PSKmail "Western hemisphere bug"??
Found the bug, and corrected it...
pse test if it works in beta8 (1.4.b8), which has been uploaded.
South should be OK.
Rein PA0R
>
>
>Yes, that what I was worry about, missing minus sign somewhere and you have no
>chance to see it since you are in Eastern part of the world (no minus). We
>also should check for South. I will appreciated if you look at this problem. I
>am finishing up my boat's station and will send it to Canary's Island probably
>in 3 weeks. Everything seems to be working fine, still few issues
>1/ Sometimes while communicating server and client goes out of sync and get
>lost
>2/ Compressed email required to be downloaded twice in order to be received
>correctly
>
>I will continue torture PSKmail this week end and see if I can narrow the
>problem.
>
>Thanks for you work Rein
>73
>Robert
>KB2PNM
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: Rein Couperus <rein@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 3:13 AM
>Subject: [pskmail] Re: GPS and PSKmail "Western hemisphere bug"??
>
>
>Robert,
>
>probably a minus missing somewhere. Difficult to debug for me because
>I live in the wrong place :)
>I will take a look...
>
>Rein
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>Still torturing PSKmail....
>>
>>This time I worked with gpsd
>>It did not function properly but after few trials I learned that have to
>>simply restart gpsd to make it work.
>>From terminal:
>>
>> killall gpsd
>> rm /var/run/gpsd.sock
>>
>>That will stop whatever is not working and next starting again :
>>
>>gpsd /dev/ttyASM0
>>
>>After that I started xgps which nicely shewed me all data from GPS.
>>Later I reconfigurated my jPSKmail client with Preferences/Edit/Devices ->
>>marked Use gpsd
>>
>>Proudly I was able to see my position in APRS window, the problem - Longitude
>>stay EAST !!
>>I see data out of GPS in xgps and it is correct, but in jPSKmail I am in
>>Eastern hemisphere. Please look at the attached picture.
>>I am affraid that "minus" is missing somwere in the code.
>>
>>Well, anybody has any suggestions??
>>I keep torturing PSKmail......
>>
>>73
>>Robert
>>KB2PNM
>>
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