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From n3kl.org
See all APRS activity in the Las Vegas valley area via aprs.fi and Google maps.
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 Las Vegas valley. Packets passing through the area via the many mountain top digipeaters come from all surrounding states so the I-Gate provides service to amateur radio APRS operators for hundreds of miles in all directions in Nevada, California, Utah, and Arizona. 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 stations on the air.
APRS I-Gate K7FED-10 / K7FED-JS Status page
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This page was last updated on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 09:14:41 AM