Spend spots for SOTA Activations by APRS Messages Just some of the fun things OTHER THAN TRACKING that I have found out is possible. As time has gone on it has sadly fallen away to mostly be seen as a tracking device, showing where different stations are. If you were plonked in another city with only your radio and a Terminal Node Controller (TNC), within 10min or so you could gather all you needed, from repeater information, local radio nets and know how to contact nearby stations in simplex as well as send 2 way short text messages. There is a data mode called Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) - when it was created it was designed as a ‘intelligence gathering tool’. It means that it likely means I am in an RF quiet environment from 3-30mhz on HF, however should I want to tell my non radio friends that I am running late but not to worry, or I want to check what repeaters are around me - then I am out of luck. I spend a lot of time when I am ‘playing radio’ in places that have little to no mobile phone service.
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