{"id":268,"date":"2019-01-31T23:36:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T04:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/?p=268"},"modified":"2019-01-31T23:36:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T04:36:42","slug":"aprs-in-2019-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"APRS in 2019 (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, I mentioned in my last post I was having trouble getting APRS to work, and needed to do some further troubleshooting. As it turns out, the free program <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/wb2osz\/direwolf\">direwolf<\/a> is a <em>pretty neat<\/em> utility for doing many APRS tasks, including troubleshooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was able to download and install direwolf, tune my alinco radio to 144.390 Mhz, and run an audio patch cord from my alinco radio to the audio-in port on my PC. From there, I was ready to have direwolf decode any APRS messages my radio could receive, and carry on troubleshooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"859\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aprs_direwolf_highlights.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"269\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/?attachment_id=269\" class=\"wp-image-269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aprs_direwolf_highlights.png 859w, https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aprs_direwolf_highlights-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aprs_direwolf_highlights-768x505.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Forgive the small text &#8211; the above shows the output I was able to get from direwolf, after setting my Anytone radio to operate in GPS beacon mode. Note the top 2 messages, direwolf is able to tell there is a digital message here, but notes that it&#8217;s not in the AX.25 format, and can&#8217;t cleanly decode it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a whim, I changed the <a href=\"http:\/\/info.aprs.net\/index.php?title=Paths#MOBILE_Stations_in_North_America_.28VHF.29\">aprs path<\/a> from what I believed to be correct, &#8221; WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2&#8243; to just &#8220;WIDE2-2&#8221;. And success! Note the bottom 2 messages, which direwolf was able to decode successfully. Apparently my Anytone radio doesn&#8217;t operate correctly with a comma in the Path setting (and doesn&#8217;t handle that failure gracefully at all. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll hear more about APRS in the future \ud83d\ude42<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I mentioned in my last post I was having trouble getting APRS to work, and needed to do some further troubleshooting. As it turns out, the free program direwolf is a pretty neat utility for doing many APRS tasks, including troubleshooting. I was able to download and install direwolf, tune my alinco radio to [&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-268","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\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}