Thanks for the replies.
Lee, thats eactly where I started. Didn't work for me as configured, I changed the "pi" to my home dir and it would give me 340+ lines on the journal file.
I kept making little changes until I got to where I am and it looks like it almost starts.
Andrew, While I understand your point about what the software is first and foremost, I got the idea right from the direwolf gihub page.
doc/Raspberry-Pi-APRS-Tracker.pdf
I can run the direwolf command in CLI and it functions as I would like, just would like to be able to auto start it.
Look up AK7AN-3 to see the output on APRS.fi
Still working on it
Thanks
Ed
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