All:
From reading the 20(!) pages of the other Squawkgear thread, I note that there are currently two ways of setting transponder code:
1) The old way: under the fg radios panel by modding the radios.xml file
2) The new way: with an entry under the fg menubar squawkgear menu
I am currently doing it the old way, as the procedure for that setup involving the radios.xml file is the method of install prescribed on reeed's blog (http://squawkgear.wordpress.com/setup/). However, I have no idea if that code is going out to VATSIM or not. Is there any way that I can verify that I am squawking a code with the transponder in the radio system? For example, when I squawk -- should there be a note of doing such in the sb747 buffer?
I am hesitant to request that the VATSIM controllers verify that I am squawking. Any ideas?
This might be another area where SquawkGear could be a bit more verbose, given the importance of transponder use in the VATSIM regime.