I operate an APRS IGATE station at home
and also run an APRS tracker AJ5TT-1
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AJ5TT-7 - IGATE |
AJ5TT-1 – Mobile |
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Fun Stuff through my IGATE |
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Maps showing both stations on same map: |
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APRS Fun through my IGATE
You can send APRS Email messages and do
QRZ call sign lookups!
To send an
Email message, send a message to AJ5TT-7 and in the message body, put:
em:
someone@somewhere.com The message
subject goes here
You should
receive back a confirmation that the message was actually sent correctly.
Try sending
to your pager or Cell Phone,
To lookup
information by call sign, send a message to AJ5TT-7, and in the message body
put:
L:w1aw (the call sign you want to look up)
You will be
returned the name, license class, and address associates with that particular
call sign if the data is available.
A
simplified WHOIS variant is as follows:
w:w1aw
You can
also do a name lookup to find a call sign.
n:Your Name
Returns are
the number of "hits" and up to seven call signs. Any more then seven will be truncated.
Doing name
lookups is not always successful as city names and street names may also be
included in the search.
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Note: On the
"current location" page, be sure to check the time since that last
report was received. Sometimes "My current position" is not actually
my current position, but rather the last time someone received my signal.
The system that
allows my position to be transmitted via ham radio, received by other stations,
and then viewed on the Internet is a very new technology, so there are a lot of
things that could go wrong. It also depends on whether I am close to receiving
stations. Some areas have no receivers, so you will not see any position
updates while I'm in these areas. So sometimes the web page doesn't always
work, and sometimes it looks like I've been sitting in the same location for a
while.