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millner(at)me.com
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:50 am    Post subject: APRS / ATRS Reply with quote
>> RV's with ATRS installed use the JPOLE

Are folks using ATRS (APRS?) for sending text messages also? Is there a
WiFi interface to smart phones, or what's the input device of choice?

Paul

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:49 pm    Post subject: APRS / ATRS Reply with quote
APRS is only available to ham operators and uses a two meter packet radio.
No text. No wifi.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:35 pm    Post subject: APRS / ATRS Reply with quote
I think I read about someone experimenting with a MicroTrak4 in their airplane...
http://www.byonics.com/mt-tt4

Unlike the other MicroTracks, it has a receiver on it as well, so it is capable of receiving text.

I'm not sure about a wifi interface, but a bluetooth-serial interface for handling APRS messages would be a pretty simple (relatively speaking) hack for android devices.

That'd be pretty slick!

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>> RV's with ATRS installed use the JPOLE

Are folks using ATRS (APRS?) for sending text messages also? Is there a WiFi interface to smart phones, or what's the input device of choice?

Paul







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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:30 am    Post subject: APRS / ATRS Reply with quote
On 02/07/2012 11:36 PM, Don wrote:
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APRS is only available to ham operators and uses a two meter packet radio.
No text. No wifi.


Actually, you can send and receive text messages with APRS. In You'd
need to have the appropriate transmitter, receiver, display, and
keyboard in the plane to do so, but it is certainly possible.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:59 am    Post subject: APRS / ATRS Reply with quote
On 2/7/12 11:28 PM, Daniel Hooper wrote:
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I think I read about someone experimenting with a MicroTrak4 in their airplane...
http://www.byonics.com/mt-tt4
From a while ago, but great info...


http://home.hiwaay.net/~sbuc/journal/tracker.htm

Also, here's info on setting up your own APRS iGate...

http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=30180

-Sean

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:28 am    Post subject: APRS / ATRS Reply with quote
Hi Don,

I'm a ham; note that APRS began as a general text service. The geo
updating's become the killer app, but hardly the only... some folks use
it for remote weather stations, other things.

So it certainly supports text messages... I'm just looking for a low
barrier of entry approach to doing so airborne. Thanks for your
thought, incorrect though it may be! Smile

Paul
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APRS is only available to ham operators and uses a two meter packet radio.
No text. No wifi.



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