Whenever the dialog announcing tactical messages from that user comes up, click the "Never" button. That will remember that decision as long as YAAC remains up.
Considering how annoying these messages can be, I'm thinking about making some changes to this:
1. Persist a "Never" or "Always" decision for a specific sending callsign over YAAC restarts. However, then there would have to be a way to delete the persisted settings if they were no longer wanted.
2. Ignore TACTICAL messages to get your local tactical aliases entirely if you don't have any defined, so the annoying dialog won't come up if you have nothing to send to the requestor.
3. Fix YAAC's sending of TACTICAL messages to be RFONLY,NOGATE so that it won't go to the APRS-IS unless someone specifically changes the configuration to enable it. Since TACTICAL names are supposed to be local (not global), those messages really shouldn't be going over the Internet. The menu choices to send and get tacticals isn't even enabled in YAAC unless you have an open RF port, but any station set up as an I-gate would presently allow the messages to be sent to APRS-IS as well as RF.
I need to check how many of those annoyances are coming from YAAC (as opposed to some other program like Xastir), and see if the present default behavior of YAAC is contributing to noise.
Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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From: yaac-users@groups.io <yaac-users@groups.io> on behalf of Jamie H <wa7jh@...>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2024 8:02 PM
To: yaac-users@groups.io
Subject: [yaac-users] Tactical Messages from PT2VHF
I keep getting tactical messages from this call, can I turn that shit off?
Jamie Hughes
WA7JH
(360) 340-8886
