Ok, not sure why it started working before(but I was changing a lot of settings) because it's still not giving the SSID but I found that if I add the line
iwconfig ath0 txpower auto
to the jasager script it will start broadcasting the SSID on boot.
To clarify, my original problem was caused by trying to start jasager when it was already running. However, I did not think it was running because it was not broadcasting an SSID.
Still having other problems but that's a subject for another post.