Aprs

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Amateur Posistion Reporting System

There are many, MANY web sites detailing what APRS is, it's history, the wide variety of interfaces, radios, TNCs, sound cards, etc, etc that can and are used on the national APRS frequency of 144.390. If you've a TNC or can connect the audio output of your radio to your PC's sound card - you're ready to get involved. Even if you don't have a radio - just a PC and an internet connection, you can join in.

The Casper Mnt digipeater KD7AGA-6 and the Copper Mnt digipeater KD7AGA-5 are both sponsored by CDK Net. A small club in the Casper area. Your support of APRS is very much appreciated! Both of these digipeaters help to provide excellent APRS coverage for Natrona county and a large part of Wyoming. 2 W7VNJ club members operate I-gates - each on a different ISP. This provides reliable and redundant I-gate service for the area.

I've set up a java APRS client on my own web server at the house. You can see local APRS activity by clicking that link. You'll have to allow the applet to run by accepting the signature from Analysis & Management Enterprises Corp. This applet only listens to the APRS traffic as heard at my QTH on 144.390. There is no internet feed. Please allow enough time for the applet, the maps and images to load - there's a lot there and will take some time, especially over a dial-up connection.

If you know the callsign of a station, you can see their current posistin by fisiting map.findu.com/<callsign-ssid>. For example, to see my -6 station, visit map.findu.com/kc7zru-6. Findu is a fantastic resource for APRS data.

If you've any questions - feel free to ask on the discussion board, at a CARC meeting or on the RM-APRS email reflector hosted at Yahoogroups.com.

The I-gate at KC7ZRU-15 is also an internet server that provides the worldwide APRS Internet System (APRS-IS) data feed at aprsdcsp.kc7zru.net. That server will provide APRS-IS data feed for most any APRS client software. Just add aprsdcsp.kc7zru.net to your server list and have fun! You can see it's current status here.

The following image is a 'snapshot' showing a few weather stations, my motorcycle, a 'sailboat' and some of the trails recorded during that day.