APRSDroid (Android App)

[Obh]

Talking with a ham friend, he was telling me about APRS. The only radio I have that can currently do that by itself, is the Yaesu FTM-500 which is in my truck. "I'm not going to fiddle with that while driving" I told him.

So that got me thinking. I have a DigiRig, cables for multiple radios, etc, why not try this app for my phone. So I spent the $10 or whatever it was on the app. I'm not sure if there is one for iPhone...

Straightforward setup. The only thing I had to mess with was the TX delay because I had to use vox. Default was ~200ms, I settled ~800ms.

So, for $10, I have a way to send text messages to family when power goes out here (which happens all the time).

I'll make a separate post in the radio forum to discuss APRS.

[Defiant_Faith]

Nice!

I have used JS8Spotter and Winlink for sending text messages in a test environment. We rarely lose our power. There is a guy in my ham radio club that uses APRS in his truck and his wife also has it in her car, he is able to track her with the APRS app.

[JohnyMac]

Pretty cool obh. Looking for ward to the post. ✌