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Hello all,?

I have a feeling this is more of a user issue than anything, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to give a station a temporary name such as you would for public service events.

my goal is to take a station such as “Ki5NON-4” and name it something like “SAG 3” such that in the map view I see SAG 3 and there APRS icon instead of a Ki5NON-4. Ideally messaging I could also go to sag 3 and have the software translate to the necessary callsign for FCC compliance, but I’ll take what I can get.?

anyone know how to do this??

Greetings.

Half of what you want is already within YAAC. The other sounds like an interesting idea that I will be investigating.

To set the tactical name associated with a station, find the station on the View->Stations/Objects List table. There are two columns fairly far to the right entitled "Alias" and "Alias Symbol". To change the label for a station, enter the case-sensitive text you want for the tactical name in the Alias column in that station's row. You may want to click the red stop sign button on the Map window to get the table to hold still if you are getting a large number of new stations in the list; make sure to click the green Go button when you are done so you don't lose traffic. If you don't like the icon that the station is reporting, you can click in the Alias Symbol column for the station's row and pick any standard APRS icon (or type the symbol table ID or overlay followed by the symbol code if you don't want to scroll through the list and you know the code you want). Both of these will override the normal display on the map of the affected station as long as you have checked View->Layers...->Show Local Aliases (checked by default). Note that aliased stations' names show in blue on the map, where actual AX.25 sender callsign-SSID show in black. Also, tactical names do not have to comply with AX.25 callsign-SSID rules, but it is recommended not to make them much longer than normal callsign-SSID names to keep from cluttering the map; they are restricted to under 57 characters if you intend to share them with other stations (explained below). To stop using a tactical alias name or symbol, clear the text in the appropriate field for the desired station.

Note (only if you have an RF port) you can send your local tactical names to other stations supporting the TACTICAL message (YAAC and Xastir both support this message; other APRS programs' capability in this area is unknown), and also query if another local station has tactical names defined. If some other station tries to push tactical names to you, you are asked by YAAC whether to accept the other station's tactical definitions (either this one time or for the life of the YAAC session). Only YAAC can send and receive alias/alternate symbol displays for a station. The send and receive is done from the Query menu. Note you will not see those choices if you only have an APRS-IS port and no RF port, as tactical names are for your local tactical operation, not for planet-wide usage.

You can also save and load your current list of tactical aliases with the File->Save->Tactical Names and File->Load->Tactical Names menu choices.

Alas, you do have to know the actual callsign-SSID used in AX.25 packets to send an APRS text message to another station. However, if you right-click on the station in the Station/Object List or on the map and select Send Message from the popup menu (only doable for stations, not Objects or Items), YAAC will automatically fill in the real callsign-SSID as the message destination, even if the map is displaying the tactical alias.

Note that some stations (typically digipeaters) use a tactical callsign (such as their town name) instead of their real callsign in the AX.25 sender field of their beacons; they meet identification legality by including their government-issued callsign in the free-text comment field of the position beacon.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Logan Ki5NON
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2022 7:35 PM

Hello all,

I have a feeling this is more of a user issue than anything, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to give a station a temporary name such as you would for public service events.

my goal is to take a station such as “Ki5NON-4” and name it something like “SAG 3” such that in the map view I see SAG 3 and there APRS icon instead of a Ki5NON-4. Ideally messaging I could also go to sag 3 and have the software translate to the necessary callsign for FCC compliance, but I’ll take what I can get.

anyone know how to do this?

Thanks so much,?

That’s exactly what I was trying to do. I can live with clicking on the station to send a message as apposed to writing it in the “to” field at the bottom of the screen when using tactical calls. Just having Alias’s show up on the map is enough for me. I was expecting a left click style nickname like you do in APRS ICE, but the table works fine for how often I have to re-name people. Love the program it’s been way more user friendly than Xaistr while still maintaining most if not all of the features.?

-Ki5NON?