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YAAC Mobile, symbol not showing on map

 

Good day, Andrew -
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I have a Win11 PC running YAAC in the truck. It connects via local Ethernet network to a Microsat WX3in1 that is always on and is set up to beacon, digi my callsign, provide smartbeaconing. The Microsat has its own GPS (but sadly, it won't share it via the network).
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On YAAC, using raw packets I can see all the local traffic through the WX3in1 network connection, and can see my own beacons and telemetry being digi'ed via local digipeaters. I see my position packets as well.
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I have YAAC set to keep my station centered, and indeed it does. However, I never see an icon or crosshairs for my own truck. I've gone into the menu multiple times to select/deselect the options for show my station, but nothing changes. It shows all the other stations in receiving range, though.?

What am I doing wrong?
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Cheers and 73 - Jon N7UV
 

I found a work-around. I went into Beacon and configured a truck icon for my YAAC setup and now the pick-up truck icon shows up at the center of the screen.?
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The Microsat WX3in1 uses SmartBeaconing and sends out a position packet with the proper icon. I'm not sure why YAAC does not place that icon on the map, since in the Raw Packets window the location beacon sent by the WX3in1 shows that it has been digipeated, appears in the correct format, and in black font like the others that also are mapped properly on my display. However, the work-around doesn't explain for me why my position packet is not handled as the others received.
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Cheers and 73 - Jon N7UV
 

This is probably because you were formerly configured to have _no_ icon for your YAAC beacon. YAAC always plots its own station with the symbol specified in the beacon configuration. Since the Microsat was specifying a symbol, but YAAC wasn't, you got the (nonexistent) symbol in your YAAC beacon configuration. I presume you had exactly the same callsign-SSID combination for the Microsat and YAAC's connection to the Microsat; if the callsign-SSID settings didn't match, you would have plotted both components (the Microsat fix and the YAAC fix with its symbol).

If some other component (such as a Microsat WX3in1) is generating the beacon, it's not a YAAC beacon.

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: Thursday, December 26, 2024 11:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] YAAC Mobile, symbol not showing on map

I found a work-around. I went into Beacon and configured a truck icon for my YAAC setup and now the pick-up truck icon shows up at the center of the screen.

The Microsat WX3in1 uses SmartBeaconing and sends out a position packet with the proper icon. I'm not sure why YAAC does not place that icon on the map, since in the Raw Packets window the location beacon sent by the WX3in1 shows that it has been digipeated, appears in the correct format, and in black font like the others that also are mapped properly on my display. However, the work-around doesn't explain for me why my position packet is not handled as the others received.
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Cheers and 73 - Jon N7UV
 

Hi Andrew -?
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Thanks for the explanation. Now that's resolved.
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I am now attempting to replace the VHF APRS link to the truck W11 PC running YAAC with a LoRA 915 MHz module. At the house, I have a TTGO 915 MHz digi/igate N7UV-12. In the truck, on USB COM7 configured as "serial_tnc", I have another TTGO 915 MHz unit configured as a kiss TNC.?
This is the screen capture from that portion of CA2RXU's configuration screen for that mobile device.
I am getting objects occasionally transmitted from APRS-IS via the home digi N7UV-12 and being received at the truck N7UV-13.
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but, I don't seem to be getting beacons transmitted from the truck YAAC instance via the LoRA radio.
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In YAAC, I have the beacon set up as follows:
and like I said, YAAC has only two ports enabled:
Let me drive the truck around a bit and see if something happens.
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Cheers and 73 - Jon N7UV

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