APRS, Automatic Position Reporting System Net 12/04/08

[unwiredadventures]

Imagine if you could track every vehicle on the screen of your laptop during an off road trip or event. This is the potential of APRS.

APRS: Automatic Position Reporting System, APRS is a system developed by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, which uses amateur radio to transmit position reports, weather reports, and messages between users.

A general out line for discussion tonight:

-What is APRS?

-What benefit would APRS have when traveling with groups of vehicles.

-Types of equipment. Simple inexpensive to more elaborate systems with vehicle laptops.

-APRS over HF

[cruiserlarry]

Imagine if you could track every vehicle on the screen of your laptop during an off road trip or event. This is the potential of APRS.

APRS: Automatic Position Reporting System, APRS is a system developed by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, which uses amateur radio to transmit position reports, weather reports, and messages between users.

A general out line for discussion tonight:

-What is APRS?

-What benefit would APRS have when traveling with groups of vehicles.

-Types of equipment. Simple inexpensive to more elaborate systems with vehicle laptops.

-APRS over HF

I'm looking forward to hearing as much as I can before I lose contact (I head north to go home and lose the repeater quickly).

Not to step on the net, but do you know if the Yaesu FTM-10M or FT857D (in vhf/uhf mode) have capacity to be used in an APRS system ?

[unwiredadventures]

I'm not familiar with that radio. We'll talk about adding it to existing radios as well.

These have the capability built in:

Kenwood D700 and D710A mobile.

Kenwood D7A and Yaesu VX-8 HT's.

[cruiserlarry]

Well, I'm planning on picking up a Yaesu VX-8R when they finally show up...

[brentbba]

Sorry I missed this. I'm running a Yaesu FT-8800 in the truck and have a Garmin Streetpilot 2730. Haven't even begun to explore APRS yet. Handheld, I'll probably end up with the VX-6 or 7

[brentbba]

Imagine if you could track every vehicle on the screen of your laptop during an off road trip or event. This is the potential of APRS.

APRS: Automatic Position Reporting System, APRS is a system developed by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, which uses amateur radio to transmit position reports, weather reports, and messages between users.

A general out line for discussion tonight:

-What is APRS?

-What benefit would APRS have when traveling with groups of vehicles.

-Types of equipment. Simple inexpensive to more elaborate systems with vehicle laptops.

-APRS over HF

I'm looking forward to hearing as much as I can before I lose contact (I head north to go home and lose the repeater quickly).

Not to step on the net, but do you know if the Yaesu FTM-10M or FT857D (in vhf/uhf mode) have capacity to be used in an APRS system ?

Larry - can you hit a repeater closer to home that has Echolink? That would be one way to stay in touch with the net.