Welcome to the K7FED Amateur Radio links page.

Current Solar Activity Monitor and Propagation Information

Click here for the K7FED Solar Weather and Propagation information page!

Internet Repeater Linking Project (IRLP) Node 3319 and EchoLink node 6778 page

This is the home page for my repeater system.

Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS)

Where is Andy? 

See if I have reported a position to the APRS system lately with these links: 
If these links below ask for a login instead of going right to a map, just enter your name or callsign in the Login block on the aprs.fi screen that comes up.

Where is my Portable Beacon (K7FED-3)?    Track using Google Earth Browser Plug-in for 3D   Track using split map view

Where is my Truck (K7FED-9)?   Track using Google Earth Browser Plug-in for 3D   Track using split map view

Where is my Handheld radio (K7FED-14)?

 EchoIRLP Node Status on APRS (IRLP-3319)?

See all APRS activity in the Livermore Valley area via aprs.fi and Google maps.

The K7FED I-Gate

 APRS-IS (Automatic Packet Reporting System-Internet Service) is the common name given to the Internet-based network which inter-connects various APRS radio networks throughout the world (and space). APRS-IS is maintained and operated by volunteer Amateur Radio operators to provide world-wide capabilities to the Amateur Radio APRS RF networks and to promote the Amateur Radio service as a whole. I  host an APRS-IS  gateway using the javaAPRSServer application which monitors APRS packets on 144.390MHz here in the Livermore Valley. Packets passing through the area via the many mountain top digipeaters come from all surrounding areas so the I-Gate provides service to amateur radio APRS operators for hundreds of miles in all directions. The I-Gate is the means by which APRS packets received over the air make it into the APRS-IS database so you can see the status of a callsign or object online using sites like findu and aprs.fi or APRS mapping clients with internet data capability such as UIView and WinAPRS. I also gate certain packets to the RF network on 144.390MHz so that certain local objects such as repeaters can be seen by local stations on the air.

APRS I-Gate K7FED-10 / K7FED-JS Status page

APRS I-Gate K7FED-10 location and statistics via aprs.fi

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL)

Here's your invitation to a friendly, high-tech hobby that's got something fun for everyone! You can become an Amateur Radio operator--no matter what age, gender or physical ability. People from all walks of life pass their entry-level exam and earn their Amateur (ham) Radio license. They all share the diverse world of activities you can explore with ham radio.
You never know who you'll run into when communicating with Amateur Radio: Young people, retirees, teachers and students, engineers and scientists, doctors, mechanics and technicians, homemakers...

This page was last updated on Sunday, March 22, 2009 11:22:29 PM