APRS

VK6MJS · Post by **VK6MJS** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:33 pm

G'day
Does anyone know if there are any digipeaters in Perth for APRS?
Ta

WPXZBP · Post by **WPXZBP** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:36 pm

Gavin (VK6HGR) is the man to ask.

Welcome to the forum.

Post by **vk6hgr** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:53 pm

VK6MJS wrote:G'day
Does anyone know if there are any digipeaters in Perth for APRS?
Ta

Yes there are :-)

On in Kalamunda, one at Victoria Park, one in Pinjarra. All on the national frequency of 145.175.

VK6MJS · Post by **VK6MJS** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:59 pm

Excellent

I am looking at buying this.
http://www.strictlyham.com.au/Icom/Mobile/IC-2820H.htm

Post by **vk6hgr** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:00 pm

VK6MJS wrote:Excellent
I am looking at buying this.
http://www.strictlyham.com.au/Icom/Mobile/IC-2820H.htm

Nice!

ConstableCare · Post by **ConstableCare** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:55 pm

Anywhere on the web where you can "track" amateurs movements that have this in their car??

I have done a search on APRS but no "real time" maps for the Perth Area spring up??

Any idea's where you can view it live??

Cheers, CC

Post by **vk6hgr** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:05 pm

ConstableCare wrote:Anywhere on the web where you can "track" amateurs movements that have this in their car??

I have done a search on APRS but no "real time" maps for the Perth Area spring up??

Any idea's where you can view it live??

If you know their callsign:

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?c ... its=metric

Or something like:

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/map-near.cgi?call=vk6rvp-1

Amateurs usually use a program called UIView for live mapping and I have a set of Perth maps for it.

ConstableCare · Post by **ConstableCare** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:07 am

Thanks for that Gav....

Not much activity over the last few hours. Most people remian static it seems??

Cheers, CC

Post by **vk6hgr** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:16 am

ConstableCare wrote:Thanks for that Gav....

Not much activity over the last few hours. Most people remian static it seems??

In Perth there's not a lot of activity at all. It's big in NSW and Victoria.

ConstableCare · Post by **ConstableCare** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:25 am

Hmm ok... Not good!

Post by **vk6hgr** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:54 am

ConstableCare wrote:Hmm ok... Not good!

I'll put APRS tracking back in the car one of these days

Night_Ryder · Post by **Night_Ryder** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:11 pm

What is APRS?

Post by **vk6hgr** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:20 pm

Night_Ryder wrote:What is APRS?

GPS based position reporting and instant messaging over Amateur radio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_ ... ing_System

ConstableCare · Post by **ConstableCare** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:29 am

vk6hgr wrote:
ConstableCare wrote:Hmm ok... Not good!
I'll put APRS tracking back in the car one of these days

I thought that you still had it with the Uniden GPS 301 on your dash... Is that where you take the data from to feed the APRS?

Cheers, CC

Post by **vk6hgr** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:16 am

ConstableCare wrote: I thought that you still had it with the Uniden GPS 301 on your dash... Is that where you take the data from to feed the APRS?

I planned to, but the GPS301's output isn't exactly RS-232 compatible so it doesn't work and I'd have to use another GPS receiver.

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