APRIL OK Statewide APRS net

... great success guys.




Thanks to all the stations that participated, some via UI-VIEW, some via APRSIS32 , others by smartphone app, etc. 


Let's do this again in about a month.  I'll have OBJECTS and BULLETINS going out from KD5NJR-6 once a date is established. 




In my log I have the following stations :

KF5MDW

WD5G

WA5RDG

WA9AFM

AE5ME

W5DRO

K5SJW

W0SY

KF5ZOG

W5LZ

KE9ZB

W5RAB

KC5FM

KF5ZTX

W5MPY

N7XYO Let me  know if I missed anyone. 73 de Scott KD5NJR

IT WORKS

Set FLDIGI to 7036 and PSK-250.  Do you see anything that looks like compressed APRS packets ?


If you do, proceed on to the installation of BPQ32 and BPQAPRS.  Jeff's 40m gateway is UP !

something interesting from the AMSAT BBS

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checking your APRS messages via the Internet

Like most of us, I have a job across town from where my radios are.  How would I know if someone sent me an APRS message ?  How can I see if my station is sending APRS messages ?  IF there are APRS I-Gates (Internet Gateways) in-place and up and running this is just a matter of checking the www.aprs.fi website.  Try this link and check on my station.  http://aprs.fi/?c=message&call=KD5NJR-7  Make the appropriate substitution of callsigns and then check up on yours too.  73 de kd5njr / scott.

ANSRVR experiment

To start the "chat group" KT5DIG I sent an APRS message to ANSRVR with the body of the message reading CQ KT5DIG test from scott.  Interested parties might do the same to join the KT5DIG group.  Then, if you want to send a single message to reach the whole TDRC gang via APRS, you'd send a message to ANSRVR starting with CQ KT5DIG .... and that would save you from making individual APRS messages to folks...   73 de kd5njr/scott

2m APRS

If you've see the post "Tulsa tornado" chatter about APRS on Facebook, you likely know this already, but have kd5njr-6 running as my laptop, FT-817, rig blaster plug 'n play hardware paired with UZ7HO and APRSIS32 for software.  It's transmitting a bulletin ( when I remember to turn it on, typically weekends) APRS NET advertising the Oklahoma Statewide Net at 1300 CDT on April 11 , 2015 ( Saturday ).  The nationwide APRS frequency is 144.390 .... more to follow on the Net....

CHIRP

It's nice when software just works.  So I'm happy to give a plug for CHIRP.  It easily helped me set up some memories in my FT-817.  Now, if only charging the internal battery wasn't such an odd procedure.....  73 kd5njr / scott.