I hope someone her can help. I am trying to run yaac on Mac running OSX 10.11.6. All I get when I launch yaac Is a menu bar with yaac and nothing else. Could my ancient operating system be the cause? Cheers Tom Hole kf6kyd

I finally installed YAAC on a pc (Parallels) and I dropped the file into a Ham file. I double-clicked the YAAC.jar and nothing happened except Windows asking what to open it with. Then I tried java -jar YAAC.jar in the widows command line, which did not work either. I think Java is not installed preventing the file from opening. Tim KM4ESU

next beta build#201 of YAAC ("Yet Another APRS Client"), created 2024-Jul-14 downloadable from https://www.ka2ddo.org/ka2ddo/YAAC.html or https://sourceforge.net/p/yetanotheraprsc changes and updates include: 1. increase regression test coverage for GPS package. 2. ensure blinkenlight-launched port configuration editor won't fail to dismiss if there is an error in opening the revised port. 3. fix debug logging logic in TopoLayer. 4. fix shutdown race condition in port close for APRS-IS ports. 5. prevent deleting SRTM files if download errors occur when downloading updated files. 6. fix documentation for MADIS weather checks. 7. Add GPSD JSON tests to GPS unit tests. 8. improve AREDN plugin debug logging. also fix obstruction calculations to account for SRTM tile cells that do not contain elevation data. 9. another attempt to fix timing in unit test for marineports plugin port connector class so false failures don't occur. 10. add PNG icon images for creating startup shortcuts on platforms that don't support Microsoft Windows ICO files.

I am trying to get an old Paccom TNC 220 which I built from kit in the 1980's working as a KISS TNC. I am running YAAC under Ubuntu 24.04 on a dedicated PC with on "old type" RS 232 port which appears as /dev/ttyS5 The TNC 220 is working fine as a Command mode TNC using PUTTY to enter commands all seems normal working as it did in the 1980's. It has a KISS mode which I never previously needed so I am unsure how well it is implemented. I want to use it as a KISS TNC with YAAC. I set the radio and terminal BAUD both to 1200 Word Length to 8 KISS ON Restart TNC 220 lights flash in correct sequence to indicate it has entered KISS mode. I use the the configuration wizard to configure YAAC - so far so good. I add a Serial KISS TNC and configure it. /dev/ttyS5 what I was using with Putty when I use it as a command type TNC. When I press the TEST Port button a blank command window opens. If I deliberately enter an invalid/non-existant port e.g. /dev/ttyS6 (when it should be /dev/ttyS5) then I get the error "Unable to bring up Test-Port for Serial_TNC" but when I enter a correct port I get the blank command window . From this I assume indicates YAAC has detected a KISS TNC? The on-line help states the ... "Test Port" button provides a means of verifying that you have connected to the correct place; it opens a terminal window connected to the configured serial port so that you can manually test the TNC for the desired operation. To complete testing, close the terminal window." My question is "What do I enter in this window to "Manually test the TNC?" What should I see/do in this window to test that the TNC is operating correctly? There is no packet traffic in my area for it to decode. What commands should I enter in this command window to test the TNC? 73

Greetings YAAC Braintrust, On every APRS station that I have using YAAC as a client within the comment of the beacon there is a ",/W" in front of the text (WA5SON-2). This does not affect any of the operations of the beacon from what I can see. This text is obviously not present within the YAAC beacon tab, however I can see it within Direwolf transmit beacons which of course makes it to APRS.fi too. Anybody have information on what this is and is purpose? Here is some station information which came from the one linked above. 1) YAAC Version 1.0-beta198(21-May-2024) a) Port 1: AGWPE Direwolf Beacon: [0L] WA5SON-2>APJYC1,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1:/123300h2957.21N/09616.88W#,/W1 wa5son@...<0x0d> b) Port 2: APRSIS 2) OS: Raspbian 11 (Bullseye) 3) Kernel: Linux 6.1.21-v8+ 73 Brian WA5SON Hockley, TX

The UK APRS frequency is 144.800. There are quite few digipeaters in the UK - I manage three of them in the southeast corner of the country. There has recently been a liberalization of the OFCOM (=FCC) regulations of amateur radio, and is now easier to get a digipeater licensed. The power limit for stations is now 1KW,, up from 400W. There is limited permission of airborne stations, making it legal for APRS equipped balloons to overfly the country. I general, the new regulations are a valuable step forward. Bob G0BUX / W0BUX East Sussex, UK On 11/07/2024 04:54:22, Andrew P. <andrewemt@...> wrote: Note the original poster has a G callsign (assigned to the United Kingdom) and a .uk email address. I don't think he's on our side of the pond. :-) Anybody remember what the national APRS frequency is over there? Also note the the UK highly restricts automated station licenses, so there are very few digipeaters to forward more distant packets. Other users have commented on the scarcity of RF-hearable packets in certain parts of the United Kingdom, and the original poster didn't provide a more precise station location. Andrew, KA2DDO author of YAAC From: yaac-users@groups.io <yaac-users@groups.io> on behalf of GEO BADGER via groups.io <w3ab@...> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 10:22:46 PM No traffic on 144.390 MHz? ___ Sent from my two-way wrist watch 73 de W3AB/George On Jul 9, 2024, at 16:58, Dave GM4NFI <djcleckie@...> wrote:I am trying to get an old Paccom TNC 220 which I built from kit in the 1980's working as a KISS TNC. I am running YAAC under Ubuntu 24.04 on a dedicated PC with on "old type" RS 232 port which appears as /dev/ttyS5 The TNC 220 is working fine as a Command mode TNC using PUTTY to enter commands all seems normal working as it did in the 1980's. It has a KISS mode which I never previously needed so I am unsure how well it is implemented. I want to use it as a KISS TNC with YAAC. I set the radio and terminal BAUD both to 1200 Word Length to 8 KISS ON Restart TNC 220 lights flash in correct sequence to indicate it has entered KISS mode. I use the the configuration wizard to configure YAAC - so far so good. I add a Serial KISS TNC and configure it. /dev/ttyS5 what I was using with Putty when I use it as a command type TNC. When I press the TEST Port button a blank command window opens. If I deliberately enter an invalid/non-existant port e.g. /dev/ttyS6 (when it should be /dev/ttyS5) then I get the error "Unable to bring up Test-Port for Serial_TNC" but when I enter a correct port I get the blank command window . From this I assume indicates YAAC has detected a KISS TNC? The on-line help states the ... "Test Port" button provides a means of verifying that you have connected to the correct place; it opens a terminal window connected to the configured serial port so that you can manually test the TNC for the desired operation. To complete testing, close the terminal window." My question is "What do I enter in this window to "Manually test the TNC?" What should I see/do in this window to test that the TNC is operating correctly? There is no packet traffic in my area for it to decode. What commands should I enter in this command window to test the TNC? 73

next beta build#199 of YAAC ("Yet Another APRS Client"), created 2024-Jun-08 downloadable from https://www.ka2ddo.org/ka2ddo/YAAC.html or https://sourceforge.net/p/yetanotheraprsc changes and updates include: 1. fix ClassCastExceptions in table extensions provided by dynamic objects plugin.

Where is the download link? I can't fond it anywhere.

I can't put anything above 147.000 in the Monitor Frequency. Trying to input 147.210 and it jumps from 147.000 to 430.000. Thanks Dale KC2CBD

Hello all. Thank you for creating YAAC, it seems to be one of the only APRS programs that will work with Yaesu's weird data output. Thanks! I have a question about map tiles. I am running YAAC on a RasPi in my truck, it generally has NO connection to the internet. It is already loaded with about 60GB of map tiles from OSM, OpenTopo, BingAerial, etc. These tiles were cached via a GPS program called "Viking" (https://github.com/viking-gps/viking) The tile directories are arranged in the "/{z}/{x}/{y}.png" format. Is there any way I can get YAAC to use these existing tiles? 73 - Eric KG6WXC

Good day, We had an amazing presentation surrounding APRS by Jason (KM4ACK) at our last club meeting where he introduced us to YAAC. Most of my group are technically basic and lean into Windows as an operating system. As we also have Rob from Mobilinkd in our backyard we have a few of us using the TNC product line. Previously to YAAC, I used PinPoint which seems to work fine with windows and TNC4. During my testing I have found a few struggles. The TNC4 Bluetooth connection drops after paring and will not persist - PinPoint when configured reestablishes the connection upon port connection, and then the Bluetooth connection persists. I'm leaning towards YAAC as the issue since PP works. I'm not sure what the proper settings should be for the TNC4 and YAAC. This may null the above point. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance,

Anyone been successful in configuring a direct link between the 3?

I'd like to have an icon I can use to launch YAAC, I'd also like to add it to the menu system. For the desktop, I right clicked on the desktop and created YAAC.desktop. Then using sudo I entered; [Desktop Entry] Name=YAAC Comment=Launch YAAC Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/yaac.xpm Exec=/YAAC java -jar YAAC.jar Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Terminal=false Categories=Network;HamRadio; Then rebooted: After: Double clicking it only returns: "Invalid desktop entry file.'/home/pi/Desktop/YAAC.desktop'" I've Googled for how to do this (generically, not just for YAAC) but none of the sites makes it any more clear than what I did. Can someone point out where to find this information or help me get it working?

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-07 downloadable from https://www.ka2ddo.org/ka2ddo/YAAC.html or https://sourceforge.net/p/yetanotheraprsc 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.

Is there a way to show the Maidenhead Locator System (grid locators) on the map? 73, Eric WG3K

Trying to install YAAC on a Raspberry Pi for my RV, followed website instructions and get the following error: michael@trailer-pi:~/YAAC $ java -jar YAAC.jar Error occurred during initialization of VM Server VM is only supported on ARMv7+ VFP I must have goofed somewhere, not sure where. I installed the required stuff with sudo apt-get install openjdk-11-jre unzip libjssc-java and it looks like everything went OK. I copied the Desktop file from another machine that is working OK, but the program won't launch from the desktop icon. I tried from the command line and get the above error. Researching I found others who had similar issues and was suggested to try sudo apt install default-jdk Which went OK, but then /YAAC $ java -version Error occurred during initialization of VM Server VM is only supported on ARMv7+ VFP After a lot of fooling around, I figured out I was using an old RPi B+ with an ARM6 processor, which normally doesn't run Openjdk 11. However, I found this website with a version for older processors. https://pi4j.com/documentation/java-installation/ It seems to be really slow, but it is finally running. -- 73, Michael WA7SKG "Any day you do not learn one new thing is a wasted day."

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

This document https://www.ka2ddo.org/ka2ddo/YAACdocs/messagemenu.html#WinLink says "The WinLink message window ..." But I can't find the WinLink message window? Where or how do I display such a thing? I have a WinLink account, and yes I have the ability to transmit. My setup is Direwolf/YAAC/MacBook Air/Icom IC-7000. Keith, WA0̷TJT Author: https://net-control.us ARRL ARES Communicator Level 2, AEC for Platte Co. MO ARRL VE KCHEART Radio Operator - St. Lukes Barry Road Hospital