Actually, the PicTrak code was not written by me.
All the PICPAC code I wrote was published with source, and is
available on the website.

What PicTrak features would you like to see in the TT4?

Byon

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Mike Miller <aa8vtr@...> wrote:
> --- In picpac@yahoogroups.com, "ka3gyi" <engineer@...> wrote:
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>> 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.
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