I am working with APRS a lot at the moment. I started a couple of months ago with almost no knowledge about this mode and now I have the feeling, I slowly understand it. Here are my 10 reasons, why APRS is a great mode!
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Since a couple of weeks I am running a APRS RX-igate on a Raspberry PI with RTL-SDR dongle and pymultimonaprs. To show on the map that it’s a RX-only Igate it’s recommended to set the black diamond with a “R” overlay as a symbol. To do this you have to use “R” as table and “&” as a symbol.
Here is my configuration:
"beacon": {
"lat": ...,
"lng": ...,
"table": "R",
"symbol": "&",
"comment": "PyMultimonAPRS iGate",
"status": {
"text": "Raspberry PI - RX Igate",
"file": false
},
Since a couple of days I was trying to get my mobilinkd bluetooth tnc running with Xastir on Ubuntu 16.04. As root it was working, but as a normal user I was not able to connect with Xastir. Today I finally found the solution. Thanks to all my twitter followers who helped me finding the reason and solve the issue.
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I was asked a couple of times about the APRS settings on the FT1-XDE, so I decided to list them here with some comments. Maybe it’s useful for somebody else.
To open the APRS settings, press [DISP] for a second and chose menu 9 (APRS) and press [ENT]
If you just want to start quickly, here are the basic settings:
4) APRS Modem: 1200bps
15) BEACON STATS TXT: 73
16) BEACON TX: manual
18) DIGI PATH: WIDE1-1, WIDE2-1
20) GPS POWER: On
23) CALLSIGN: Put your callsign there
24) MY POSITION: GPS
25) MY SYMBOL: Whatever you want as a symbol
Now leave the APRS settings, switch VFO B to 144.800 (if this is the APRS frequency used in your country) and then press F + 9 (BCONTX) and you will send your first APRS beacon message.
There are a lot of useful (and useless) hamradio realted apps for Android. I will list some of the apps I am using. Some of them need a registration and some are only allowed to be used by licensed hamradio operators.
If I am missing any good app or you have any comments on the apps I am using, just leave a comment.
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Since a couple of weeks I own a Yaesu FT1-XDE handheld with built-in GPS and APRS. In general I am quite happy with this transceiver (maybe because I don’t have another one to compare) but there a quite a few things that are really annoying. Usability is definitely not one of the qualities of this handheld but maybe a device for amateur radio operators needs to be complicated đ
Or maybe I just did fully understand the possibilities of the device and there are better ways to achive the functionality I want. So I will start a list now with the most annoying things and maybe we can have a discussion here with hints and ideas about the usage of the Yaesu FT1-XDE. |
Seit einiger Zeit besitze ich ein Yaesu FT1-XDE HandfunkgerĂ€t mit GPS und APRS. Eigentlich bin ich ganz zufrieden mit dem GerĂ€t (vielleicht weil ich einfach noch kein anderes kenne?) aber es gibt doch ein paar Dinge, die ziemlich umstĂ€ndlich gelöst sind. Aber vielleicht muss es fĂŒr einen Funkamateur auch einfach kompliziert sein.
Oder ich habe das GerĂ€t einfach noch nicht gut genug verstanden und es gibt fĂŒr alles eine bessere Lösung. Vielleicht ist das hier ja der Beginn einer Diskussion mit Tipps und Tricks zum FT1-XDE. Ich bin gespannt |