[W8MWA] Fwd: APRS is morgantown

[Cory Sickles]

I also have an APRS station (VFO-B on a Yaesu FTM-400) running - in
Uniontown - as WA3UVV-8.  Plus, I'm working on a new digipeater for the
W3PIE clubhouse.

FYI - Radios (some current, some available used) I am aware of with an APRS
feature set built in are:

Kenwood (Portables) TH-D72, TH-D74  --  (Mobile) TM-D710

Yaesu (Portables) FT1, FT2, VX-8  --  (Mobiles) FTM-100, FTM-400

Note that while Icom D-STAR radios can report their position through D-PRS,
this is not the same as APRS.

I think it's wonderful that (once again) W8MWA members are taking a
leadership role by embracing new or underutilized technology into the area
- to better serve the amateur radio community and our community at large.

Cory Sickles



On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 10:49 AM, KD8YNY Dean <kd8yny at gmail.com> wrote:

> Josh (KC8TAI), myself (KD8YNY) have been playing around with the APRS
> system and have them up and running with limited coverage (testing phase),
> Josh has been teaching me some neat tricks also.
>
> We are both mainly testing and implementing things as we go along, we have
> also noticed (N8URE) is set up as a listening only station just up to the
> NW of Ruby and is picking up some pretty good signals.
>
> Over the past couple of days, we have seen some activity and hope this
> grows to get great coverage for our local areas and once we get the W8MWA
> system back up, we intend on having a much, much wider coverage.
>
> Tuesday the 20th of this month, I will be bringing in my little setup and
> we will be talking more about APRS, what it can do and so on.  If you have
> an APRS capable radio, please bring it with you and we can set them up to
> listen and broadcast APRS.  One radio that comes to mind is the Yeasu FT-1,
> FT-2, VX8DR has it also...  I am sure there are others that have APRS.
>
> If you want to see what is going on in Morgantown, you can click on the
> following link to see our station, what objects we are positioning
> (Stationary, Repeaters, Police) and what positions are being reported by
> any of the three stations currently running.
>
> https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=11&lat=39.5658&lng=-79.9500&t
> imerange=3600&tail=3600
>
> Here is also a couple of screen captures of what is going on right now..
> .
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Dean Thompson KD8YNY
> *Monongalia Wireless Association: **W8MWA* *Club President*
>
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