APRS-1

From M6FCT

Recently I have been driving to drive to Nailsea for work; it’s about an hour’s drive and can get VERY Tedious. So I had my Baofeng and the mag mount set up to listen. I was tuned into GB3WR, and heard some gentlemen talking about APRS. After listening to the conversation for a while; I thought I might like to give it a go.

I did some research and discovered that best way was to use an Android device with APRSDroid installed. I did not have an android device, but my mother did.

I asked mother if I could borrow it, she was not sure, so I left it for a while and took the opportunity to do some more research. A few days ago, I asked again and she lent it to me. So I bought and installed the software (APRSDroid). Plugged it into my radio via an audio cable and transmitted my first APRS burst. It took me a few attempts to work the app out but by the end of the day I had it going!

Since then I have driven to work in nailsea transmitting… or so I thought when I got there I found it sent one burst where as I had it set up to transmit a burst every minute or so. More to come on this project…