{"id":262,"date":"2019-01-30T14:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/?p=262"},"modified":"2019-01-30T14:45:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:45:01","slug":"aprs-in-2019-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"APRS in 2019 (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently picked up a new, Chinese made, &#8220;HT&#8221; style ham radio. I had been pretty curious about what advancements have been made in the nearly 20 years since I last purchased a handheld radio. I&#8217;ve been specifically curious about some of the newer, popular digital modes (around here, <a href=\"http:\/\/w8yy.students.mtu.edu\/repeaters\/\">UHF DMR<\/a>). And my new radio, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgecomsystems.com\/products\/anytone-at-d878uv-dual-band-dmr-handheld-radio-w-gps-programming-cable?gclid=CjwKCAiAs8XiBRAGEiwAFyQ-eoIS5FiSJLQFn3z-PaFj3Krb42NI8sBfSpGXKE1dSSvyRzwpZ5hmQxoCg7MQAvD_BwE\">Anytone AT-D878UV<\/a>, will allow me to join the fun. Here you see the new AnyTone radio next to my old Alinco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ham_HTs-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-263\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the selling points of the new radio was that it supports <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_System\">APRS<\/a> out of the box &#8211; just fill in your callsign, and a few other details, and away it goes, happily posting your current GPS position to the APRS network. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I was having trouble with it. Even when I had a GPS fix, the radio was sending positioning data, and I was pretty sure I was within range of an APRS gateway&#8230;my position never made it into the online database at <a href=\"http:\/\/aprs.fi\">aprs.fi<\/a>. After trying a few other settings, and searching online for the problem, it was apparent that I needed to find out if my radio was sending out valid APRS packets. Stay tuned for part 2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently picked up a new, Chinese made, &#8220;HT&#8221; style ham radio. I had been pretty curious about what advancements have been made in the nearly 20 years since I last purchased a handheld radio. I&#8217;ve been specifically curious about some of the newer, popular digital modes (around here, UHF DMR). And my new radio, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamsexy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}