Category: APRS
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Microsoft Surface for Portable Ham Radio Data modes
Setting up a Microsoft Surface Go for Portable Ham Radio Data Modes.
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HF APRS & HF Winlink on ANDROID Deviceas
Hello Operators.We have finally arrived at something special. It is a pleasure to announce the arrival of HF APRS & HF Winlink to Android devices. This update comes to the community via an updated Robust Packet TNC called the Teensy RBR TNC. The Teensy is a Robust Packet TNC, enabling HF APRS and HF Winlink on…
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Microsoft Surface or Raspberry Pi field computer?
Hello Operators.In this episode of the OH8STN ham radio, we are discussing replacing the raspberry pi field computer build, with a Microsoft Surface for ham radio data mode comms. At the top of my list was the Microsoft Surface Go 2 tablet for use with modes like Winlink, FT8 with JTDX, JS8Call, and other ham…
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Too few Operators or station problems?
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I recently posted the image at the top of this post to a user group in Facebook, in response to the complaints about low activity for some digital modes compared to FT8. Never mind about the title, this post is not meant to offend anyone. However, I usually have a pretty low tolerance when hearing…
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HFAPRS Overnight message from PE4BAS
This morning I woke up to find a message from Bas PE4BAS. He heard my mfsk4 Beacon last evening or overnight, He decided to reach out and let me know he heard my station, while I slept. Operators have asked me what’s the use of HFAPRS. One of the ways I plan to use it…
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HFAPRS Weak Signal Messaging & Group Communications
Hello Operators Topic of the day is HFAPRS & weak signal grid-down messaging using APRS Messenger. APRS Messenger is developed by Chris Moulding G4HYG. APRS was developed by Bob Bruninga WB4APR. Although APRS and HFAPRS share many attributes, HFAPRS is quickly becoming the standard for long distance weak signal POS reporting and short group messaging…
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HFAPRS RX & Respond to Message using APRS Messenger
This is a short demonstration of APRS Messenger message reception, reply, and acknowledgement over HF APRS. HFAPRS and APRS Messenger are the little-known gems of keyboard to keyboard group communications on HF. Many operators talk about other chat modes, but few modes offer these near real-time keyboard chat and messaging capabilities as APRS Messenger. APRS…
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HFAPRS Weekend 03-05 March 2018
This weekend we will be QRV on 30M using HFAPRS in PSK63 & MFSK16 modes, using APRS Messenger for TX/RX or DroidPSK for Android based TX beacons from the field. We return to 30M as the majority of activity globally, is already on that band. Goals of the event Get your beacon onto APRS.FI over…
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HFAPRS with APRS Messenger & DroidPSK
I thought it’d be a good time to open the discussion and perhaps testing of HF APRS. There’s a couple of different implementations of it, but the HFAPRS for this discussion is based on APRS messenger developed by Chris Moulding G4HYB from cross-country Wireless. Like its cousin APRS on VHF, HFAPRS provides the user with…
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