gregory21greg
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- Sep 10, 2016
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Hello! I am new to APRS and so far I'm hooked! I love it! But there are a bunch of things I want to do. First and most important is I am launching a high altitude balloon and I am equipping it with an APRS tracker. My problem is when I am looking for the payload on the ground I would like to decode the packets from it considering there probably will not be any digipeters or igates where it will land an I do not want to walk around the forest with a laptop in one hand and my HT in my other so I want to be able to connect it to my phone and decode packets that way. I built a cable for my UV-5R that allows me to use APRSDroid which works well except it only allows me to send my location and use it as a tracker and not a decoder. Is there a way to accomplish that from my phone. (keep this cheap I'm on a budget) Also I set up an igate using an RTL-SDR, SDR# and APRSIS32, first I hate having SDR sharp open just so I can send the audio to the packet engine and then to APRSIS32. Is there a more efficient way? Also I don't fully know how to use APRSIS32 and would also like to make a more efficient system like with a Raspberry Pi (but I cannot see the traffic with that system) And last but not least if I hook up my Mobile rig I keep in my house to a TNC and then to my computer (being able to Xmit as well as receive) does that give me any benefits if i can transmit for example have an igate and a digipeter or is that useless?
Thanks!
Thanks!