How do you know these particular stations are on 440?

You haven't included any of the exact text of the packets that are bothering you, but (just looking at the technical possibilities):

1. Do you have an APRS-IS (Internet) connection that is bringing in those packets? Similarly, do you have a VHF TNC connection that is bringing in your local VHF traffic? YAAC displays everything coming in from all open ports unless you use filters to restrict your view.

2. Are they Object or Item packets identifying 440MHz voice repeaters that were digipeated from VHF? This shouldn't occur, but that doesn't mean someone doesn't have a misconfigured station pushing the info for a local repeater around the world.

3. Is the 440 just part of the text of the packets (such as someone at 44 degrees and 00 minutes latitude), or did someone include their local listening frequency in their packet? Again, that is useless on HF APRS, but it doesn't mean someone didn't do it.

I sincerely hope you didn't set up your station as a cross-band digipeater between VHF and HF with the normal VHF-only digipeat aliases allowed on the HF port. Similarly, you shouldn't be a transmit-capable I-gate to HF (especially one forcing extra packets from the Internet). The low baud rate of HF packet and the huge coverage area (with corresponding high chance of hidden-transmitter collisions) doesn't leave room for extra packets on the HF APRS frequencies.

Just a few words of advice....

Andrew, KA2DDO

author of YAAC

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Andrew I think he means the program "screen" in terminal which allows you to hot key to run programs in different terminal screens. You can run top in one, edit a script in another read email in another screen etc.

When you say "screens", do you mean the alternate command-line-output that doesn't have to be actively displayed on a graphical desktop? Such as is typically used for direwolf, a "headless" command-line app that reports its log data to standard output?

If so, that is why "screens" won't work with YAAC. YAAC is a graphical app that must be displayed on a graphical desktop, not in a command-line-only environment. The only information that YAAC writes to command-line standard output is debug and error log data which is also copied to a rolling disk file. And "screens" doesn't tell the apps hosted in it where its desktop is (because screens doesn't know, and may not even have a desktop at any given time).

Now, if you are trying run the graphical displays of YAAC in a virtual desktop (such as a VNC remote desktop), when you launch YAAC, you need to tell it which desktop to use for its displays. On Linux and other Unix derivatives, this is done with the DISPLAY environment variable, whose value defines the X Windows address of the X server (screen server) to use. Graphical desktops and terminal windows upon such a desktop inherit the desktop's setting of this environment variable. For security reasons, X servers do not by default allow access from apps not launched from their desktops, so you may have to not only define the DISPLAY environment variable correctly, but also use the xhost command to authorize non-desktop app processes to access the screens of the desktop.

If your system is using Wayland instead of X, the desktop is deliberately not remotely accessible. You will have to either switch from Wayland back to X, or find an X server emulator for Wayland that will provide the off-system access capabilities of X.

Hope this explains why your attempts aren't working.

Andrew, KA2DDO

author of YAAC

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I have recently been introduced to running apps in screens in raspberry pi.??

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I tried to run yaac in a screen but have not been successful.? Maybe I do not have the correct options.? Can anyone help.

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Thanks.

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Joe

VA3TV

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got it tnx Rusty

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why am i seeing. 440 aprs? i am on HF. ?14.102.3. and 10.147.60

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on the radio view of yaac. ?how do i limit it to only HF?

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tnx everyone for helping

Make sure that you are installing the Java Runtime Environment. I got mine from java.com/download/ie_manual.jsp

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After it is installed go to the command prompt and type java -version

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If it installed correctly you should get a message listing the version number and identifing itself as the Java SE Runtime Environment.

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Now you should be able run YAAC through the GUI by clicking on YAAC.jar or if you are comfortable with a command line you can run it from it's home directory with the command java -jar YAAC.jar

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Make sure that you are in the YAAC directory and that you aren't accidentally inside of the .zip file. This is such an easy mistake to make on windows that I usually delete .zip files or move them to a USB drive after unzipping the contents.

Here's a few things to check before you try again:

1. On your Windows system, open a Command window (the old-style DOS prompt). In that window, type the command

java -version

(Note that the hyphen "-" is required as part of the "-version" option to the "java" command)

This will verify that the Java runtime (a prerequisite for YAAC) is installed properly and print out what version of the runtime you are using. If this command does not work, then you need to fix your Java runtime installation before you go any further with YAAC.

2. Assuming you passed the Java runtime test, and still using the Command window, cd into the directory where you unzipped the YAAC.zip file. Issue the DIR command and verify that the YAAC.jar and YAACMain.jar files are present in that directory, and there is a subdirectory named images.

3. Assuming all the above-mentioned files are there, type the command

java -jar YAAC.jar

This will start up the Java runtime running the program inside the YAAC.jar file. Do not discard what gets printed out after you run this command; if the YAAC map window does not open and prompt you to run the configuration wizard, then the text printed in the Command window will be critical to determining why YAAC didn't start up.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO

author of YAAC

nope that didn't work.? I'm gonna download the file again and unzip it.? Maybe I? got a corrupt file.

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don

hummm thought I did that too....let me go back and try that.

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thanks

don

Run the file YAAC.jar just like you'd run an .exe file. If Windows asks you to select a program to run this filetype then select Java.

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If everything goes right YAAC should start.

OK I know I'm doing something wrong. I got to be part of this problem

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Downloaded YAAC for source forge, unzipped it, looked for an .exe file not there..ummmm (windoze 10)

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Downloaded it on my Ubuntu machine unzipped it and there was the .exe file. (Ubuntu install went fine)

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I got Java running on the windoze machine (the enable box checked in the runtime environment)

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What am I doing wrong ???

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Be kind I'm old.

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don

It would have been yaac on SourceForge, but Yet Another Asteroids Clone beat me to the project name. :-)

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thanks - I always forget that on sourceforge it's yetanotheraprsc not yaac %^)

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Cheers and 73 - Jon N7UV

Niece,

How many GPS receivers do you have attached to your computer? If you only have one GPS, there should only be one GPS button appearing on the YAAC map window toolbar.?

Also, how is your Beacon configured? The Beacon must be checked as enabled, or it will not be transmitted. The ability to disable a beacon is to support receive-only stations that don't yet have a callsign for transmitting. Also, if the beacon is configured to use GPS for its position, you must have a valid GPS fix (i.e., the GPS receiver has sky-view to see several satellites) for YAAC to transmit a beacon. YAAC will not transmit a beacon with invalid GPS data.

That last reason is why you shouldn't have too many GPS ports configured. If even one of those ports reports a bad position fix, YAAC won't beacon.

Also, on your RF port (Serial_TNC, AGWPE, KISS-over-TCP), is transmit enabled on the port? If the port is not configured to transmit, it won't send any beacon records.

Additionally, what are you using for a TNC? You mentioned using DireWolf. Did you tell DireWolf how to push the PTT on your radio? If DireWolf is just generating audio but not keying the transceiver, the radio won't transmit. Check your PTT directive in your direwolf.conf file to ensure it is correct for the Icom 7610 you say you are using.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO

author of YAAC

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rusty that site is offline!

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so on my YAAC screen. at the top of the screen i see. all in green except. IP and RF

IP flashes. green and. RF flashes green sometimes

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but there. are. ?G I G G G R G

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all the gps icons are all green

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on direwolf i see the TX’ed beacon

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but i dont see my icom 7610 transmitting

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what do i need?

As a further note, you can also download YAAC from SourceForge. The only thing you can't get from SourceForge that you can get from my personal web server is the pre-processed OpenStreetMap data.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO

author of YAAC

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The problem is that I am currently upgrading the server, so it will probably be down for a few hours until the major release upgrade of the operating system finishes.

I'll send out an announcement when the server is back up.

Andrew, KA2DDO

author of YAAC