Filtering Messages

• which subset of received messages should be displayed in the various windows. The types of filtering that can be performed are:
  • whether the station or object is within a certain radius of a latitude/longitude position.
  • by the symbol of the station or object, as specified in the messages sent by the station.
  • by the original sending station's callsign.
  • by the specified destination of the message (except for Mic-E encoded messages, which use the destination callsign to carry the latitude, most significant digit of the longitude, North/South/East/West indication, and station status bits).
  • by the callsign of the first or last station to digipeat the message.
  • by the arbitrary category of the station (weather, mobile, digipeaters, object, or none of the above).
  • by the TNC or APRS-IS port which brought the APRS packet into YAAC.
  • by the Mic-E status code (if any) of the APRS position message (Mic-E or text position using the APRS 1.2 extension).
  • whether certain information is included in the APRS packet, such as certain types of weather information, RNG or DFS codes, repeater station parameters like frequency and shift, etc.
  • miscellaneous filterings such as maximum time since the message was received (selectively not applicable for played-back log file packets), whether the message indicates a human operator at the sending station, whether the message has priority or emergency precedence, whether the message was received in real-time from RF or the Internet or was played back from a log file, and whether the station is within local RF distance to the station running YAAC.
• If using the signaling facilities of YAAC to report when stations enter the defined local territory of this station, the range limit and center position defining the local territory can be specified. The optional sounds plugin uses the signaling facilities.
• Which sending stations should be blacklisted from being digipeated or I-gated by this station. Normally, you should not need to use this. However, because the licensee of a station is legally responsible for the transmissions of that station, this gives you the ability to prevent re-transmitting other stations that you have determined would cause you to be in violation.
  

  Initially, the blacklist is empty. You can type in a callsign-SSID combination and click the Add Callsign button to mark that station for blocking. Similarly, if you determine that the station should no longer be blacklisted, you can select it on the list and click Delete Callsign to remove it from the blacklist. You can also select to what level the callsign-SSID will be blacklisted by choosing whether to stop it from being:

  • I-gated (either to or from the APRS-IS),
  • digipeated,
  • responded to for queries,
  • accepted for inbound AX.25 connection requests from that callsign-SSID.
  Note that you can't stop receiving the offending station (because you can't make them stop transmitting), but you can make your station stop being an accomplice to their behavior. If you also wish to stop seeing the offending station on the YAAC displays, use the Filter->Edit Filter menu choice and disable the source callsign-SSID on the Sender tab.