# The YAAC View Menu

The View menu provides options for different ways to display APRS data. Options include:

- displaying the main map window (useful if it has been closed while other windows kept YAAC alive).
- displaying raw APRS messages (the Raw Packets window).
- displaying text messages sent through APRS in four ways:
  - displaying raw messages in arbitrary order.
  - displaying and logging specifically selected APRS text messages.
  - displaying the current state of broadcast bulletins.
  - displaying the messages originated by the local YAAC instance for transmission into APRS.
- monitoring the current network bandwidth in use on each interface port open by YAAC.
- monitoring the current status of the GPS receiver connected to YAAC.
- monitoring the current status of the weather station connected to YAAC.
- displaying all the stations and objects currently known by YAAC.
- displaying all objects/items originated from this station.
- viewing the message rates from all heard stations in messages per 15-minute interval.
- view received telemetry data.
- view a health monitor for selected stations of interest.
- view which APRS-IS connected stations are being forwarded (Tx I-gated) by this station.
- displaying incoming message traffic in the same style as the Kenwood RC-D710 control head.
- choose whether or not to display the local station on the map, and what style to use to identify it.
- enable/disable tools for drawing additional non-radio attributes onto the map.
- draw a line-of-sight over terrain between two selected points on the map.
- automatically re-centering the map around the current GPS location (useful for mobile operations).
- displaying weather stations using old-style weather map symbols.
- turn on and off raster map overlay images, and load new raster map images into the map catalog, including weather map data from the U.S. National Weather Service.
- enable/disable displaying topographic (elevation) contours based on downloaded Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) elevation data, in filled regions and/or color-coded contour lines.
- turning on and off different types of map data on the OpenStreetMap layer.
- view the list of security authentication keys used for authenticated messaging.
- display reported DX events.