Yaesu FT2DR Transmitting APRS Beacon Manually

I'm enjoying the FT2DR. It's a solid radio, good audio output and overall well designed.

However I did have some confusion on how to transmit APRS info, namely a manual beacon text transmit.

I had set up the GPS, my APRS callsign, the beacon text and I programmed 144.390 in the B VFO.

After I acquired a GPS signal, I tried to press the soft key that would manually transmit my beacon info/text. All I received was an error beep.

I rechecked my settings and everything looked okay.

My Mode was set to FM (with a line over the top of the letters FM) Auto Mode Select  (AMS). I decided to switch off the AMS. So now the  mode displayed was just the letters FM with no line over the letters.

This worked! I was able to send an APRS beacon text message!


So you can't have AMS enabled when your using APRS.  LUCKILY you can set AMS on for the VFO A and have it off on VFO B at the same time.

Notice the A VFO has AMS on, while the
B VFO has AMS off. 

FT2DR APRS Manual



73  Jay AB1II

Sending javaScript array to server side c# via web service call

Sending javaScript array to server side c# via web service call

I wanted to send a collection of attributers for a set of textbox input html controls to the server side via an AJAX call:

Collect the desired elements and place certain properties in an array:

var inputs = new Array();

    $("[class^=txtEdit]").filter(":input").each(function () {

        var i = { 'ClassName': $(this).attr("class"), 'Id': $(this).attr("id"), 'Val': $(this).val() };

        inputs.push(i);

    });

Make the AJAX call:

var serviceUrl = '..//Tools.asmx/SaveEdits';

    $.ajax({

        type: "POST",

        //data: JSON.stringify(inputs),

        data: '{ "elements":' + JSON.stringify(inputs) + '}',

        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",

        url: serviceUrl,

        dataType: "json",

        success: function (response) {

            if (response.d) {

                //TODO: rebind

            }

            else {

                alert("Save Edits Failed");

            }

        },

        error: function (response) {

            alert("failed service call" + serviceUrl);

        }

    });

Container class on server:

public class HtmlInput

{

    public string ClassName { get; set; }

    public string Id { get; set; }

    public string Val { get; set; }

    public HtmlInput()

    {

    }

    public HtmlInput(string className, string id, string val)

    {

        this.ClassName = className;

        this.Id = id;

        this.Val = val;

    }

}

The web method:

/// 

    /// Saves all the inputs (items, appOverdies) using services

    /// 

    /// colecton of html inputs

    /// error string

    [WebMethod]

    [ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat = ResponseFormat.Json)]

    public string SaveEdits(HtmlInput[] elements)

    {

        string ret = string.Empty;

        try

        {

            foreach (HtmlInput txt in elements)

            {

                //DO some stuff

            }

            return ret;

        }

        catch (Exception e)

        {

            //TODO:  log e.message etc.

            return ret += e.Message;

        }

    }

Jquery: Displaying Object Property Names and Values

Jquery Displaying Object Property Names and Values

Here is one way to display a JSON object’s property name and value.  I used this to display the results of a test service call to a paging service.

C# class:

 /// 

    /// Container class to hold results of paging service calls

    /// 

    public class PagerComm

    {

        public string Address { get; set; }

        public string Domain { get; set; }

        public string ElaspedTime { get; set; }

        public string Env { get; set; }

        public string Error { get; set; }

        

        

        public PagerComm()

        {

        }

        public PagerComm(string address, string domain, string elaspedTime, string env,string error)

        {

            this.Address = address;

            this.Domain = domain;

            this.ElaspedTime = elaspedTime;

            this.Env = env;

            this.Error = error;

        }

    }

Asmx method returning the class:

[WebMethod]

    [ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat = ResponseFormat.Json)]

    public PagingTools.PagerComm SendTestPage(string tstTyp, string pgrId, string pgrTyp)

    {

        PagingTools.PagerComm ret = new PagingTools.PagerComm();

        try

        {

            PagingTools.ETestPageService svc = new PagingTools.ETestPageService("local:dxf", "test");

            ret = svc.TestEpicPaging(tstTyp, pgrId, pgrTyp);

            return ret;

        }

        catch (Exception e)

        {

            //TODO:  log e.message etc.

            return ret;

        }

    }

Service call:

function SendTestPage() {

    var serviceUrl = '..//Tools.asmx/SendTestPage';

    var tstTyp = $("#tstTypDdl option:selected").val();

    var pgrId = $("#pgrIdTxt").val();

    var pgrTyp = $("#pgrTypTxt").val();

    $.ajax({

        type: "POST",

        data: "{'tstTyp':'" + tstTyp + "', 'pgrId':'" + pgrId + "', 'pgrTyp':'" + pgrTyp + "'}",

        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",

        url: serviceUrl,

        dataType: "json",

        success: function (response) {

            ParsePageComm(response.d);

        },

        error: function (response) {

            alert("failed service call" + serviceUrl);

        }

    });

}

Call back function:

function ParsePageComm(result) {

    if (result) {             

        $("#resultsDiv").html('');

        $.each(result, function (prpNm, prpVl) {

            if (prpNm.indexOf("_") < 0)

                $("#resultsDiv").html($("#resultsDiv").html() + prpNm + ": " + prpVl + "
");

        });

    }

    else {

        alert("Error with Service ");

    }

}

Example UI:

Address:
Domain:
ElaspedTime: 1004.805
Env:
Error: Failed to execute E3C command.

Adding a simple custom section in App.config c#

In App.config: you need to set up a configSections / sectionGroup sections, then you can add your custom sections below appSettings:

xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>

  <configSections>

    <sectionGroup name="EpicSettings">

      <section name="EpicVersions" type="System.Configuration.DictionarySectionHandler"/>

    </sectionGroup>

  </configSections>

  <startup>

    <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>

  </startup>

  <appSettings>

    <add key="rootLevel" value="C:\Program Files (x86)\Epic"/>

    

    <add key="drFltr" value="Interconnect-*"/>

    <add key="DevVersion" value="Interconnect-DEV"/>

    <add key="CmdBldr" value="CommandBuilder.exe"/>

    <add key="CnfgEdt" value="ConfigEditor.exe"/>

    <add key="TrcVw" value="TraceViewer.exe"/>

    <add key="GnrlCnfg" value="\Web\App_Data\Config\General.config"/>

    <add key="WbSvPxyBldrSubDir" value="\Tools\"/>

    <add key="WbSvPxyBldr" value="WebServiceProxyBuilder.exe"/>

    <add key="PhsGenSvcSubDir" value="\Web\bin\"/>

  </appSettings>

  

  <EpicSettings>

    <EpicVersions>

      <add key="v7.9" value="Epic 2012"/>

      <add key="v8.1" value="Epic 2014"/>

    </EpicVersions>

  </EpicSettings>

</configuration>

In code:  Here is one way to access your custom section in the code:  Here we’re trying to determine the Epic Version based on if the directory path contains a string matching one of the config keys.

private string getEpicVersion(string vrsnpth)

        {

            string ret = string.Empty;

            var epicVersions = (ConfigurationManager.GetSection("EpicSettings/EpicVersions") as System.Collections.Hashtable)

                 .Cast()

                 .ToDictionary(n => n.Key.ToString(), n => n.Value.ToString());

            foreach (System.Collections.Generic.KeyValuePair<string, string> vrsn in epicVersions)

            {

                if (vrsnpth.ToLower().Contains(vrsn.Key.ToLower()))

                {

                    ret = vrsn.Value;

                    break;

                }

            }

            return ret;

        }