hello guys. two questions.

I have a node on the air near the Amateur Electronic Supply here in Las Vegas. I would like to program the cordinates into that node so that it is displayed in the status page. CLI is not my forte' at all, so may someone walk me through it?

I also have a mobile node that will get a GPS hooked to port 2 very soon. I am very comfortable with hardware, but not so much with software. I read jims article, and I still cant make heads or tails of the coding part. Eventually I would like to connect my Byonics TT4 to the node. Hardware wise, its very simple, just cut the traces on the TT4 and it spits out TTL level serial. The same thing can be done with the MTTT4, and you'll have a complete 2m<>2.4G<>Internet box.

The sticking part with me is the software. Running the soldering iron is a blast, but coding looks like a nightmare. I'm a GUI man. HIHI

any thoughts.

Hi Dan

Some time ago I put GPS on my nodes.  I wrote to Jim  giving my code, and he was going to  add it to his article.  Other things have probably taken precedence.

It is simple, but you will need to  get local help.  You need to get SSH  access to the nodes to edit the "status" file in the "cgi-bin" directory.   Lost you already? ;<)

 That's why you need someone local who knows Linux ,  and "vi".

To put location in the status page is simple.

After the heading info in the "status" file insert:

    print "Location 43.5S 172.6E";

    print "<hr>\n";

(use your latitude and longitude, not mine) and it's done.

I am attaching my code for the GPS device.  You will need to use "croned" to read the GPS device

every 5 minutes.  

You do need someone who knows Linux.

Cheers,  Graham ZL3GSL

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the code didn't seem to be attached ... will try again

Aha.  It doesn't like .doc or .txt files,  willl try PDF. Doesn't like that either.

Dan, give me your email address and I'll mail it.

73, Graham

Thanks Graham

My email is my call @gmail.com

I appreciate the straightforward answer.