Easiest way is to open a Terminal window (lxterm or whatever you have installed on your system), then type the command:

java -version

If that prints out 2 or 3 lines of version information, you have a working Java runtime. If you get an error message "java: command not found" or something of that ilk, then you haven't installed Java, and you need to execute the command

sudo apt-get install default-jre

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Tim Huffaker <thuffaker@...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2024 2:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] Icon of YAAC on Raspberry Pi Desktop

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Danny,

looking at yours and now i am beginning to think I do not have Java installed. Please let me know how to test for Java and if I do not what version I need to install.

Danny,

looking at yours and now i am beginning to think I do not have Java installed. ?Please let me know how to test for Java and if I do not what version I need to install.

I don't know if .ico files are acceptable to Raspbian. That is the variant of Microsoft Windows .bmp files used for icons. However, you could convert the .ico file to a .png file with Gimp, and then reference the .png file instead.

I think I will add that to the next YAAC build.

Andrew, KA2DDO

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Tim Huffaker <thuffaker@...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2024 11:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] Icon of YAAC on Raspberry Pi Desktop

Hello All,

I found this discussion and I am trying to get an Icon of YAAC on my Raspberry Pi desktop. I do not what is stopping my Icon from working.

My desktop file

[Desktop Entry]
Name=YAAC
Exec=java -jar /home/pi/YAAC/YAAC.jar/
Icon=/home/pi/YAAC/images/yaaclogo64.ico
TerminalS=false
Type=Application
Categories=HamRadio

The error I am getting looks like some type of permission.

Invalid desktop entry file'/home/pi/Desktop?yaac64.desktop'

I want to get this working and I do not know how to clear the error.

Tim
KM4ESU

Hello All,

I found this discussion and I am trying to get an Icon of YAAC on my Raspberry Pi desktop. ?I do not what is stopping my Icon from working. ?

My desktop file

[Desktop Entry]
Name=YAAC
Exec=java -jar /home/pi/YAAC/YAAC.jar/
Icon=/home/pi/YAAC/images/yaaclogo64.ico
TerminalS=false
Type=Application
Categories=HamRadio

The error I am getting looks like some type of permission. ?

Invalid desktop entry file'/home/pi/Desktop?yaac64.desktop'

I want to get this working and I do not know how to clear the error.?

Tim?
KM4ESU

thanks Andrew -

That took me the other direction, which is that it did permanent full screen, so I can't use the taskbar to access other apps running. I guess I'll stay as is.

Cheers and 73 - Jon N7UV

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Thanks for the recent updates, Andrew.

Two questions on the display bar at the bottom of the screen.

1) Is there a way to turn on/off the lat/lon display?
2) Is there a way to turn on/off the send message bar?

The reason I ask is that I have a small mobile display and can use the additional real estate.

--
Cheers and 73 - Jon N7UV

next beta build#199 of YAAC ("Yet Another APRS Client"), created 2024-Jun-08

downloadable from
or

changes and updates include:
1. fix ClassCastExceptions in table extensions provided by dynamic objects
plugin.

next beta build#199 of YAAC ("Yet Another APRS Client"), created 2024-Jun-07

downloadable from
or

changes and updates include:
1. prevent spurious EOFExceptions from using buffered input streams.
2. add message event types so user can be informed when their outgoing
APRS text messages are acknowledged or rejected by the recipient
station. update the sounds plugin to recognize these new event types.
3. a few more minor performance improvements for station with wide-open
APRS-IS feeds.
4. experimental (and not yet complete) enhancement to landmark search
to use comma-separated search string to indicate reverse hierarchical search.
5. fix logic in ProgressDialog causing default dialog to be too small
to see the progress bar on window managers with large title bars.
6. fix broken login in Winlink message sender so that login challenges
will be recognized properly, and the multiple lines of a Winlink
email message will be sent one at a time, waiting for acknowledgement
before proceeding to reduce chance of packet collisions.
7. add logic so that code can test the current state of a
SendableMessageWrapper in terms of the progress in sending the message.
8. fix race condition in ADS-B plugin causing failure of the old
aircraft track timeout login.
9. fix demo plugin build.xml and pom.xml to properly clean up and build
demo plugin distro zip file.
10. fix dynamic objects plugin to more efficiently and accurately match
up routes with known OpenStreetMap Ways for roads, trails, and paths.

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Is there a way to show the Maidenhead Locator System (grid locators) on the map?

73,
Eric WG3K

Rusty,

Thank you for the wget commend to load YAAC from the Raspberry pi command line.?

Tim
KM4ESU

Greetings.

Here's a few suggestions.

1. Use the mini-USB cable (with ferrite choke) that came with the TH-D72 radio to connect the radio to your computer. Other mini-USB cables may work, but the choke is good to reduce RF conduction into the computer to mess it up.
2. Since you are using Microsoft Windows, ensure that the COM port in the radio has appeared and identify its COM port number (ex.: COM9), using the Device Manager in the Windows Control Panel. You may need to download and run a Windows driver installer from Kenwood to tell Windows how to talk to the USB-to-serial chip inside the radio.
3. Once you have a COM port working, on the radio itself, go into its menu, and check the baud rate you have specified for the COM port (defaults to 9600 baud). Once you know what COM port baud rate is configured, tune the radio's A side to 144.390 simplex, and press the TNC key on the radio until the top of the screen says PACKET12 (not APRS12 or blank). Also adjust the squelch as low as it can go without letting normal no-signal static come out the speaker. Notice if you hear any local packets squawk from the speaker.
4. Start up YAAC. When you are configuring your radio port, choose the Serial_TNC port type (not the Kenwood port type), select the COM port number that was identified back in step 2, set the baud rate to match the radio's baud rate, enter your callsign, specify you are using a TNC2-compatible TNC for the KISS mode command (the D72's built-in TNC is TNC2-compatible), and save the port configuration. Note you can do this either from the configuration wizard, or from the expert-mode Configuration dialog.
5. Make sure your YAAC beacon is configured and enabled to identify your station.

At this point, if you hear received packets from the D72's speaker, they should also appear in YAAC on the View->Raw Packets table view. Whether they will appear on the map window depends on whether you are looking at the part of the map in your local vicinity. If you have entered your beacon coordinates correctly into the beacon, you can click the Home button (little icon of a house) on the Map window to center the map on your station's configured coordinates.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of scott pastor <scottpastor@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 8:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [yaac-users] Introducing myself and asking for advice

Hello everyone, name is Scott, Call is kc8kbk, been a ham for years and just now getting into APRS.

Does anyone have configuration instructions to connect a Kenwood D72 to YAAC? I’ve tried following the YAAC help file but I can’t get the radio to talk to my computer (Windows 10), and I’m beyond frustrated.

73 and thanks in advance!

Scott, kc8kbk

Hello everyone, name is Scott, Call is kc8kbk, been a ham for years and just now getting into APRS.?

Does anyone have configuration instructions to connect a Kenwood D72 to YAAC? I’ve tried following the YAAC help file but I can’t get the radio to talk to my computer (Windows 10), and I’m beyond frustrated.?

73 and thanks in advance!?

Scott, kc8kbk

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Roger that. Thank you Andrew I didn’t think I read that wrong. I’ll be watching for the next release.?

There is an APRS gateway to WinLink which allows you to send small messages through APRS to WinLink. However, the YAAC code for accessing that gateway is currently broken, and I'm working on fixing it.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Rusty Travis <rusytravis19@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 6:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] WinLink Message Window

On 5/28/24 08:13, Keith Kaiser via groups.io wrote:
This document says "The WinLink message window ..." But I can't find the WinLink message window? Where or how do I display such a thing?

One needs to download, install, configure and run the program from ... Use the "Messages" pull-down menu from within the program.

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Don’t get mad but are you saying YAAC can run inside of WinLink? Or are you saying YAAC is aware that WinLink is running on the same PC? Or if you are saying I have to download and install YAAC then I can tell you unequivocally that I am running YAAC, it works great.?

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On 5/28/24 08:13, Keith Kaiser via groups.io wrote:

This document says "The WinLink message window ..." But I can't find the WinLink message window? Where or how do I display such a thing?

One needs to download, install, configure and run the program from ... Use the "Messages" pull-down menu from within the program.

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