--- In picpac@yahoogroups.com, "ka3gyi" <engineer@...> wrote:
>
> I have been playing around with the Pic-Trak sw and would like to use
> it at a fixed station to just monitor packets and TX my position.
> However, there isn ot way to enter a Lat / Long. I placed my Lat /
> Long in the status message as a work around. The problem is that
most
> trackers will not decode the status message and extract the
position.
> Is there a way to get the Pic-Trak to TX a postion without a GPS?
>
> BTW, I had the energy detect problem on the PICPAC where I could not
> get anyhting to TX unless I enabled the TX busy. I did some research
> and found that there shouild be a 100pf cap in parallel with R1. I
> made that change and the others suggested here - R2 is 100K and added
> some decoupling caps to the MX614 and PIC. The PICPAC is working
> great - very good decode and no lockups. TX busy is set to off, quit
> time is 5 and Quiet Timeout is 15.
>
I have the same problem, and the only way I see to correct it is to
modify the software to allow this feature.
Byon will not open source the software due to copy rights, so I belive
PIC Track is for now, an ORPHAN.
I have TT4 and it is not quite all the featutes of Pic-Trak but, we'll
see if it (TT4) matures.