1. APRS By Jim Mastrogiovanni KK5RZ December 14, 2006

2. APRS was developed in the early 1990's by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, for digital communications and tracking mobile GPS equipped stations utilizing Amateur two-way radio.

3. Stations Locations Objects Tracks Areas Weather Assets APRS stands for Automatic Packet Reporting Station APRS can keep track of : APRS also provides short text messaging capability

4. APRS Equipment

5. $47.00 built and tested with case $38.00 Kit with case TinyTrak3

6. Transmit only TNC Fixed Beaconing Smart Beaconing Primary and secondary configuration Transmit hold off on “busy” frequency

7. $179 to $199 depending on the vendor Kantronics KPC3+ Full featured TNC tx/rx remote access digipeat

8. A 2 meter capable transceiver -hand held or mobile rig

9. Garmin GPS 18 PC or LVC $70 to $129.99 depending… GPS

10. PC

11. Some examples of APRS stations

12. Transmit only tracker configuration GPS NMEA 0189 serial output Transmit only TNC 2M transceiver on 144.390 MHz

13. Full featured APRS station Personal Computer running APRS software Full TX/RX TNC Transceiver tuned to 144.390 GPS NMEA 0189 serial output optional

14. Igate APRS station Personal Computer running APRS software Full TX/RX TNC Transceiver tuned to 144.390 your.isp.com Internet APRS Server

15. Full TX/RX TNC Transceiver tuned to 144.390 RF APRS Tracking Station Personal Computer running APRS software

16. Full TX/RX TNC GPS and Remote Access enabled Transceiver tuned to 144.390 Re-configurable stand alone APRS tracker GPS NMEA 0189 serial output

17. Internet based APRS your.isp.com APRS Server Igate stations RF to Internet gating worldwide PC running APRS client software Large Quantities of APRS Data

18. Some Local APRS Activity Screen Captures

19. Mobile Stations collected via RF from my QTH near Bergheim

20. Fixed Stations collected via RF from my QTH

21. KK5RZ-9 track on a recent trip to San Antonio

22. SA Marathon all reports all stations

23. Trip to SARC Meeting December 14, 2006

24. Slide 2

25. Demonstrations Software Tracker Portable Station