Check and see how much you are receiving in the Direwolf console window (where it logs every received and transmitted packet) (or in journalctl if you are running Direwolf as a service). It's amazing how much difference the antenna makes. And proper audio levels into the sound card feeding Direwolf.

For example, right now I am running an experiment between my base station APRS (on a dual-band base antenna mounted on top of the house's chimney with a 10-foot mast) and a mobile station I am constructing, presently connected to a second dual-band base antenna mounted on the sewer vent pipe on the same roof (about 12 feet lower, but still 15+ feet above the ground). The higher antenna with properly matched audio levels is getting about 3 times as many stations as the other one (where I can't turn the radio's speaker volume down enough to not overload the mike input of the sound card), and they are horizontally only about 12 feet apart.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Niece KA1ULN via groups.io <ka1uln1@...>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2025 6:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [yaac-users] i think i am missing something

PAUL,
SINCE YOU ARE a linux person and have used yaac and direwolf
is it possible to send you an email or shall i just post the specifically directed questions to you?
i am good in qrz.com and email is good there.
i am using raspberry pi 5 yaac, direwolf and running open jdk 17.0.14.
but i think i should see more that what i am seeing now on yaac. i think my direwolf.conf is good.

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That's kind of strange. Could you privately email me your YAAC configuration (export it by File->Configure->Export to File)? It appears that there may be something broken with compressed-mode position reports.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Scott Gillins via groups.io <scott@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2025 10:52 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] Strange error message after antenna fell down

I realized after hitting send I did not summarize the issue very well.

As you can see in the message Direwolf is reporting a 'nul' character found in the information part. I am trying to figure out where this is coming from.

Thanks,
Scott


On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 8:30?AM Scott Gillins via groups.io<> <scott@...<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
While I don't think that my antenna follwing down caused this but I did notice it after.

I am currently running YAAC beta 207(1-feb-2025)on a pi4 using digipi as a sound card and Direwolf version 1.8D that I compiled from source as the TNC.

I do not know if YAAC is sending out a bad packets or if the local digipeter recently started munging it.

I noticed the error message on the Dierwolf output.

[0L] W2KP-10>APJYC1,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1:@150447h/=P<[23x1F!<0x00>CSay nice things<0x
0d>
Digipeater W7MOT-4 audio level = 44(9/8) |||||||__
[0.3] W2KP-10>APJYC1,W7MOT-4*,WIDE2-1:@150447h/=P<[23x1F!<0x00>CSay nice things<
0x0d>
'nul' character found in Information part. This should never happen with APRS.
If this is meant to be APRS, W2KP-10 is transmitting with defective software.
Position with time, Farm Vehicle (tractor), KA2DDO YAAC
N 33 34.8213, W 111 54.8922, -2 km/h (-1 MPH), course 0
Say nice things
Digipeater W7ARA-4 audio level = 35(5/5) _||||____
[0.2] W2KP-10>APJYC1,W7MOT-4,W7ARA-4*,WIDE2:@150447h/=P<[23x1F!<0x00>CSay nice t
hings<0x0d>
'nul' character found in Information part. This should never happen with APRS.
If this is meant to be APRS, W2KP-10 is transmitting with defective software.
Position with time, Farm Vehicle (tractor), KA2DDO YAAC
N 33 34.8213, W 111 54.8922, -2 km/h (-1 MPH), course 0
Say nice things


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Thanks Andrew - I was busy over in Configure>Openstreetmap ?

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Cheers and 73 - Jon N7UV

The cure is easy. Go to View->Layers->Select Geographical Map Layers. On the POI tab, uncheck the categories or individual types you don't want or need to see; for example, you may not care about the location of barber shops or beauty salons, but you might want to keep displaying the locations of fire stations or hospitals. These changes are persisted, so you don't have to do it again each time you start YAAC.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Jon Adams via groups.io <n7uv.jon@...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 8:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [yaac-users] Many different symbols on OpenStreetMap - very cluttered

Hi Andrew -

This has been the case for some time now, but OpenStreetMap now displays many symbols that are a visual nuisance. See this screen capture:
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These symbols are in the YAAC>images folder. Waste receptacles, mail boxes, greenery, etc. It seems I must be able to get rid of them. I have poked around on this group and on the Internet, but so far maybe I'm using the wrong search terms.

Is there a cure? %^)
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Cheers and 73 - Jon N7UV

If you installed the Oracle commercial JRE or JDK on Windows, then all you should to do is use File Explorer to view the directory into which you unzipped the YAAC.zip distribution file (you can't run it from inside the zip file), then double-click on YAAC.jar (the starting Java program for YAAC). That should get YAAC running.

If you used OpenJDK instead, you'll need to add the JRE's bin directory to your system PATH environment variable in Windows Control Panel (OpenJDK doesn't have a full-blown Windows installer like the Oracle commercial version does to automatically register the java.exe program as the program to open .jar files), then either do the above starting of YAAC from File Explorer, or open a Command window, use the 'cd' command to move to the directory when you unzipped YAAC, and type the command

java -jar YAAC.jar

Hope this all helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Chambers <veast1@...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 8:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [yaac-users] Im thinking there might be an easier way ....

Hello.
I've been a longtime Linux user and have used YAAC for quite a while now under Linux. I have just purchased a Microsoft Surface Pro 3. I
admit to not knowing anything about Windows since Win98SE. I've searched over the web for how to get it (YAAC) running under JAVA on
the Surface and have tried to look at he archives .
here but have not resolved anything.

I have installed both JDK (8u44??) and JRE. When i try to run it it pulls up a browser window and just makes a duplicate of the install file.
Further research tells me i have to set a PATH and environment variables, etc. To me it seems l should just run WUBI and install a version of LINUX
under Windows and try to run it that way.

I really would appreciate any ideas anyone might have to get it to run with win 10.1.

Thank-you much.

Paul N6MYA

I just published new builds of core YAAC (1.0beta209) and the sounds plugin (1.2.4) yesterday evening. Try upgrading and see if the problems go away.

I did notice from studying your configuration that some of the events you specify as SOUND_FILE don't have a file path associated with them, so nothing will happen. And the event types with SOUND_FILE and a path to the sample_6s.wav file are types that may not happen. For example, you ask for a sound on NEW_STATION_IN_RANGE; if you haven't configured and enabled the Range filter, then nothing will be "in range".

Is "hello" the name of your speech synthesizer program on your Windows 10 system? If not, then you won't get any synthesized speech. Also, any text-to-speech program you specify in the text field at the bottom of the Sounds configuration tab has to accept the text via its standard input; YAAC launches the program, then pipes the text to it as events associated with the SPEECH_SYNTH type occur. I have had good performance with the FOSS speech synthesizer "espeak", available at

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of e m via groups.io <delivers1234@...>
Sent: Saturday, March 1, 2025 11:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] sound plugin missing.

I still cannot get sounds. any other way to test it?



Sincerely,
Eugene Mosqueda

Dominus Providebit




On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 9:22?AM Andrew P. via groups.io<> <andrewemt@...<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Very interesting. Could you export your YAAC configuration and email it to me privately (not on the mailing list)? I'm curious about the kind of sound files you are using with the sounds plugin, as that seems related to the problem you are having.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of e m via groups.io<> <delivers1234@...<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2025 3:50 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] sound plugin missing.

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Eugene Mosqueda

Dominus Providebit




On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 8:41?AM Andrew P. via groups.io<><> <andrewemt@...<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
Sounds like you found a bug that is causing the sounds plugin configuration panel to not load.

Please repeat opening the expert-mode configuration dialog, then send me the YAAC.out file in your YAAC log directory. It will contain the error message and stack trace of what is keeping the plugin config file from loading; this will help me figure out how to fix it.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> on behalf of e m via groups.io<><> <delivers1234@...<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2025 11:23 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [yaac-users] sound plugin missing.

Hi.
What happened to my soundsplugin?

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Sincerely,
Eugene Mosqueda

Dominus Providebit

next beta build #209 of YAAC ("Yet Another APRS Client"), created 2025-Feb-28

downloadable from


changes and updates include:
1. fix race condition with startup of PBBS plugin for inbound
connected-mode AX.25 connections.
2. add support for macro variables generated by plugins which can
be referenced in the free-text comment of beacons, status, and
auto-answer messages.
3. optimize the startup of the expert-mode Configuration dialog so
users won't have to wait so long to see it, and add performance
measurement logging to determine the worst contributors to the
slow creation of the dialog.
4. add Meta key (Apple Macintosh Command key) to set of allowable
modifiers to get the equivalent of a right-click on a single
button mouse so right-click menus can be more easily accessed
on a Mac.
5. correct the reporting of tilt direction on the line-of-sight view
(was reporting up for down and vice-versa).
6. fix IndexOutOfBoundsExceptions when trying to edit private local
Objects from the Station/Object list view.
7. handle website configuration errors properly when trying to
download plugins (especially HTTP 404 errors).
8. fix NullPointerException from race condition in closing an
APRS-IS port.
9. fix JSON parser to properly handle non-null empty arrays/lists.
10. in postal address DB plugin, fix startup NullPointerException if
database JDBC driver JAR file hasn't been configured yet.
11. harden the AREDN plugin against syntax errors in JSON files from
AREDN nodes, and update the knowledge base of directional
AREDN node types.
12. add menu bar to timeslot analysis plugin's statistics table
view so the table can be printed and exported as a CSV file.
13. fix RV Telemetry plugin to allow setting macro values, fix deleting
constant definitions, allow setting GPIO output pins as the result
of telemetry analysis, add support for SN3218 LED driver chip
(as used on the Pimoroni Automation Hat), fix scaling errors
reading ADC1x15 analog0-to-digital converter chips, allow
configurable I2C bus number (to work with different models
of Raspberry Pi), and protect algorithm processor from crashing
on bad HTTP reads.
14. fix sound file playback in the Sounds plugin, and add Maven unit
tests to verify the functionality keeps working. Note this may
cause build failures if someone tries to build YAAC using Maven
in an environment without a sound card (such as on a cloud
virtual machine).