APRS By Jim Mastrogiovanni KK5RZ December 14, 2006.

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Stations Locations Objects Tracks Areas Weather Assets APRS stands for Automatic Packet Reporting Station APRS can keep track of : APRS also provides short text messaging capability

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APRS

By Jim Mastrogiovanni KK5RZDecember 14, 2006

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APRS was developed in the early 1990's by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, for digital communications and tracking mobile GPS equipped stations

utilizing Amateur two-way radio.

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•Stations• Locations• Objects• Tracks• Areas

• Weather• Assets

APRS stands for Automatic Packet Reporting Station

APRS can keep track of:

APRS also provides short text messaging capability

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APRS Equipment

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$47.00 built and tested with case$38.00 Kit with case

TinyTrak3

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TinyTrak3

Transmit only TNC

Fixed Beaconing

Smart Beaconing

Primary and secondary configuration

Transmit hold off on “busy” frequency

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$179 to $199 depending on the vendor

Kantronics KPC3+

Full featured TNC tx/rx

remote access digipeat

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A 2 meter capable transceiver -hand held or mobile rig

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Garmin GPS 18 PC or LVC$70 to $129.99 depending…

GPS

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PC

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Some examples of APRS stations

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Transmit only tracker configuration

GPSNMEA 0189 serial output

Transmit only TNC

2M transceiver on 144.390 MHz

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Full featured APRS station

Personal Computer running APRS software

Full TX/RX TNC

Transceiver tuned to 144.390

GPSNMEA 0189 serial output

optional

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Igate APRS station

Personal Computer running APRS software

Full TX/RX TNC

Transceiver tuned to 144.390

your.isp.com

Internet APRS Server

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Full TX/RX TNC

Transceiver tuned to 144.390

RF APRS Tracking Station

Personal Computer running APRS software

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Full TX/RX TNCGPS and Remote Access enabled

Transceiver tuned to 144.390

Re-configurable stand alone APRS tracker

GPSNMEA 0189 serial output

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Internet based APRS

your.isp.com

APRS Server

Igate stations RF to Internet gating worldwide

PC running APRS client software

Large Quantities of APRS Data

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Some Local APRS Activity Screen Captures

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Mobile Stations collected via RF from my QTH near Bergheim

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Fixed Stations collected via RF from my QTH

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KK5RZ-9 track on a recent trip to San Antonio

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SA Marathon all reports all stations

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Trip to SARC Meeting December 14, 2006

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Trip to SARC Meeting December 14, 2006Slide 2

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Demonstrations

Software

Tracker

Portable Station