Amateur (Ham) Radio BS and Callsign Thread!

Um, k4gcc was the repeater for the launch. For the net it was w4mlb

 

Hey @medic2230 if we both run aprs, can i send you a text from here? Not sure how that stuff works

 

There’s a bunch of repeaters linked in the morning down there I’ve listened to a good bit. Links go all the way up to North Carolina.

 

Hmm. Ill have to listen in the morning on the,drive.

 

Yup. Me and Max have exchanged messages back and forth. You’ll have it setup With -9 after your callsign for APRS. Just send the message to KN4OZE-9. I’ll have it on in the morning.

 

Ill read into it in tomorrow. I just enjoy seeing my truck on aprs.fi

 

Do you run the APRS app also?

 

Can I send an APRS message from the west coast to someone in the east coast? Or is that too many hops to complete. Or would the message go from an igate near me and end up to a igate/digipeater on the east coast?

 

Short answer, yes.



Long answer, depending on how it's done can flood the system with a lot of data through a lot of towers.

The text book on how things get done with APRS-rf and APRS-is is very different than how it works in reality. Still working through all the kinks.myself. I've done NH to CO once just to test the ability.

 

Neg. No tnc ATM...

 

Try it and see.

 

You don’t need a tnc.

 

Well then. App store here i come

 

Aprsdriode???

 

Nope that’s the one you need a tnc for.


This one.

 

We talking the app to be used with the radio, or just ap to use APRS ?

 

Since neither of us has a separate tnc we’re talking just app.

 

I dont have iPhone....

 

You can use APRSdroid.

 

Standby let me fire up the Android.