Thursday, October 30, 2014
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Digital APRS Gathering
17th Annual Summer Gathering near North Bend, Washington Sept 5, 6 and 7th
(primary content is Saturday) Always the weekend after Labor Day.
CQ CQ CQ All APRS and Digital radio enthusiasts - >
Summer Gathering is almost here and the weather is forecast to be great!
This is a very social and very educational event right here in the Pacific Northwest in North Bend, Washington.
The Summer Gathering is great fun and a great opportunity to learn and practice just about anything you can do with a computer and your ham radio particularly focused on the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) http://www.aprs.org/.
Here is the link to Valley Camp: http://valleycamp.org/ it is located in North Bend, Washington 10 minutes off of I-90 at exit 34. At the bottom of the Exit 34 ramp, turn north and continue 1/2 mile past the convenience stores and truck stop and watch for and take the right turn onto SE Middle Fork Road (County Road sign says Valley Camp 2.2 miles). Continue to the "Y" and take the left on SE
Middle Fork Road (lower road). Follow until you come to the stop sign. The entrance to the camp is straight ahead across the small intersection. GPS Coordinates for the entrance of camp: 47.4680 -121.6808 (Don't forget the minus on the longitude or you'll end up in Mongolia!)
Many folks arrive on Friday for socializing. The presentations are on Saturday. Try and arrive for breakfast from 7:00 to 8:30. Presentations start at 9:00am. If you plan to attend and want to stay overnight we still have bunk space available in Teneriffe Lodge as well as full service RV sites and plenty of tent spaces.
Please contact Teena at info@valleycamp.org as soon as possible with your request and to get info on overnight accommodation.
The location is a beautiful camp with hot showers and a bunkhouse or camping or RV opportunities. The event runs on donations and we encourage you to shoot for $10 for the day or $25 for the overnight experience - there is a donation box at the event. This venue is made available to us at no charge but it can't continue to happen without your participation and support.
If you donated what you would pay for your breakfast, we would probably be in great shape. Please help us keep this event going for another 17 years!
Bring your thirst for knowledge, some warm clothing for the evenings and some food and drink to eat and share. There are grills going for lunch and dinner and coffee early each day...
Valley Camp is an incredibly beautiful place - lots of nature trails and birding opportunities for the family along the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River.
Here’s an idea of the content:
Summer Gathering - Rules Of Engagement:
Please wear a name tag. Please meet your fellow participants. If you don't know someone, go find out what makes them tick. There is a treasure trove of interest and experience here –make sure you check it all out. If you are willing to act as a subject/topic resource, please put your interests/areas of expertise on your name tag.
Please socialize anytime, but during presentations, please move conversations to the South Side with the Demos – we want everyone to be able to hear our brave presenters;
If you have a QUESTION you would like answered during the Gathering, please:
Please DONATE to Valley Camp to keep this beautiful venue available to us for events like this. The Mail Box for donations is on the railing of the main pavilion on the north side cleverly labeled, "Donations" We are hoping the day folks will help with $10, more if you are so moved, if you enjoyed the free breakfast, maybe add more and check with Thom and Teena for overnight stays –
Contact Thom Proehl, K7FZO
k7fzo.thom@gmail.com
(primary content is Saturday) Always the weekend after Labor Day.
CQ CQ CQ All APRS and Digital radio enthusiasts - >
Summer Gathering is almost here and the weather is forecast to be great!
This is a very social and very educational event right here in the Pacific Northwest in North Bend, Washington.
The Summer Gathering is great fun and a great opportunity to learn and practice just about anything you can do with a computer and your ham radio particularly focused on the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) http://www.aprs.org/.
Here is the link to Valley Camp: http://valleycamp.org/ it is located in North Bend, Washington 10 minutes off of I-90 at exit 34. At the bottom of the Exit 34 ramp, turn north and continue 1/2 mile past the convenience stores and truck stop and watch for and take the right turn onto SE Middle Fork Road (County Road sign says Valley Camp 2.2 miles). Continue to the "Y" and take the left on SE
Middle Fork Road (lower road). Follow until you come to the stop sign. The entrance to the camp is straight ahead across the small intersection. GPS Coordinates for the entrance of camp: 47.4680 -121.6808 (Don't forget the minus on the longitude or you'll end up in Mongolia!)
Many folks arrive on Friday for socializing. The presentations are on Saturday. Try and arrive for breakfast from 7:00 to 8:30. Presentations start at 9:00am. If you plan to attend and want to stay overnight we still have bunk space available in Teneriffe Lodge as well as full service RV sites and plenty of tent spaces.
Please contact Teena at info@valleycamp.org as soon as possible with your request and to get info on overnight accommodation.
The location is a beautiful camp with hot showers and a bunkhouse or camping or RV opportunities. The event runs on donations and we encourage you to shoot for $10 for the day or $25 for the overnight experience - there is a donation box at the event. This venue is made available to us at no charge but it can't continue to happen without your participation and support.
If you donated what you would pay for your breakfast, we would probably be in great shape. Please help us keep this event going for another 17 years!
Bring your thirst for knowledge, some warm clothing for the evenings and some food and drink to eat and share. There are grills going for lunch and dinner and coffee early each day...
Valley Camp is an incredibly beautiful place - lots of nature trails and birding opportunities for the family along the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River.
Here’s an idea of the content:
- Getting Started with APRS - why do we use digital and what characteristics make it work
- Digital Communication and Emergency Communications Debate - Who can you trust, what can you use...?
- APRSIS - the swiss army knife of free digital communications software
- APRS_Messenger - more tools for effective communication
- FLDIGI-FLAMP - is the Amateur Multicast Protocol the perfect emergency communication tool?
- There will be excellent operating conditions for you to try HF - a K3, computer with lots of digital modes, interface and 4-element Triband antenna
- There will still be free beer with every new digital mode you try...
- There will be a talk about Bats just before sunset Saturday
- There will be cheezy Sci-Fy Movies late into Saturday Night...if that's your thing...
- Or you can just socialize and learn from your fellow hams is this near perfect venue.
Summer Gathering - Rules Of Engagement:
Please wear a name tag. Please meet your fellow participants. If you don't know someone, go find out what makes them tick. There is a treasure trove of interest and experience here –make sure you check it all out. If you are willing to act as a subject/topic resource, please put your interests/areas of expertise on your name tag.
Please socialize anytime, but during presentations, please move conversations to the South Side with the Demos – we want everyone to be able to hear our brave presenters;
If you have a QUESTION you would like answered during the Gathering, please:
- write it out and put it on the Kiosk, and/or
- bring it up during the introductions, and/or
- grab any of the presenters or other participants anytime during the weekend – Don't leave without getting help or setting up future help;
Please DONATE to Valley Camp to keep this beautiful venue available to us for events like this. The Mail Box for donations is on the railing of the main pavilion on the north side cleverly labeled, "Donations" We are hoping the day folks will help with $10, more if you are so moved, if you enjoyed the free breakfast, maybe add more and check with Thom and Teena for overnight stays –
Contact Thom Proehl, K7FZO
k7fzo.thom@gmail.com
Monday, August 11, 2014
17th Annual Summer Gathering
The 17th Annual Summer Gathering is now less than a month away, September 5th, 6th & 7th, have you made your reservations?
If not contact our wonderful reservation gal, K9HAV at info@valleycamp.org soon!
This year we have accommodations available Friday and Saturday nights for tents, RV's and bunk space in our lodge.
WA7VC the Valley Camp Amateur Radio Group is once again hosting the APRS Summer Gathering at Valley Camp North Bend WA, a must attended event for anyone interested in APRS, all APRS related activities, Digital Communication modes, and just good fun together around a common interest, Amateur Radio, in a very casual but modern outdoor location.
Do you have an interest in sharing what you are doing with APRS, APRS related activities, radio linking projects, Echolink, IRLP, DSTAR and other Digital Communication modes by giving a presentation? If so please contact us at vcarg@valleycamp.org with your ideas and we will work to make it happen. Right now we are working on filling up Saturday slots and if there is enough interest we will open Sunday for 2 or 3 presentations.
This is the first of several posts regarding the event, please cross post to other groups you may think would like to attend.
Remember for all overnight accommodations contact info@valleycamp.org
For event info or to volunteer to help with the event contact vcarg@valleycamp.org
73 de Thom / K7FZO
WA7VC | Valley Camp
If not contact our wonderful reservation gal, K9HAV at info@valleycamp.org soon!
This year we have accommodations available Friday and Saturday nights for tents, RV's and bunk space in our lodge.
WA7VC the Valley Camp Amateur Radio Group is once again hosting the APRS Summer Gathering at Valley Camp North Bend WA, a must attended event for anyone interested in APRS, all APRS related activities, Digital Communication modes, and just good fun together around a common interest, Amateur Radio, in a very casual but modern outdoor location.
Do you have an interest in sharing what you are doing with APRS, APRS related activities, radio linking projects, Echolink, IRLP, DSTAR and other Digital Communication modes by giving a presentation? If so please contact us at vcarg@valleycamp.org with your ideas and we will work to make it happen. Right now we are working on filling up Saturday slots and if there is enough interest we will open Sunday for 2 or 3 presentations.
This is the first of several posts regarding the event, please cross post to other groups you may think would like to attend.
Remember for all overnight accommodations contact info@valleycamp.org
For event info or to volunteer to help with the event contact vcarg@valleycamp.org
73 de Thom / K7FZO
WA7VC | Valley Camp
Friday, March 7, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
What GPS for a Kenwood D710?
Legacy serial output from the GPS is required to feed the Kenwood TM-D710.
Options:
- Get the new D710G - it has a built in GPS
- GREEN Light LABS D710 GPS sticks on the back of a D710 control head. Buy at HRO. - Ken KQ4KK
- The old standard Garmin GPS-12PC
- The Garmin Montana has RS-232 NMEA I/O, a large color touchscreen, and can do on-street routing. Most (but not all) of Garmin's Outdoor models (Montana, Oregon, Rino, GPSMAP 62/64) are NMEA 0183 I/O capable and will interface to a D7/D72/D700/D710 with the appropriate data cable. - Jerome, W0JRT
- WA8LMF: Today, nearly ALL small faceless "puck" type GPS units, and consumer display-type GPS units now have USB interfaces rather than serial. Two of the few that still have the RS-232 serial interface that you MUST have for use with the Kenwoods or common trackers are:
- The Argent Data ADM-GM1 - $45.00
- The Byonics Byonics GPS5 - $69
- On Amazon.com GlobalSat 07-BR-355-S4 GPS Receiver - $38.18
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
What's New in APRS Nov-6-2013
Updated 11/11/2013:
One interesting item I missed on the last What's New posting was the presence of the local HamWan nodes on the APRS-IS.
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?hamwan*
HamWAN, a high speed data network in the Puget Sound region, continues to make good progress - check it out:
web page: http://www.hamwan.org
discussion: http://mail.hamwan.org/mailman/listinfo/psdr_hamwan.org
It only costs $200 out of pocket to finance a client node and it's a good education in networking, microwaves and RF engineering.
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On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Bill Vodall wrote:
> The question of what's new in APRS came up at our discussion today at the Summer Gathering... It's an interesting subject.
It's been a couple months. Not much new in APRS to report...
DCC was a great time. You missed out if you missed out...
UZ7HO website is back after a brief missing in action with a new URL address: http://uz7.ho.ua/modem_beta/history.txt. Version .57 of the soundmodem TNC is now available.
UZ7HO SCM v0.57b changes:
- Reduced CPU load.
- Added option that disable waterfall in minimized state.
- Added option of the application priority that improves the work of the modem
during peaks of CPU load (decreased gaps and stuttering sound during
transmission).
A full installer is available at the WA8LMF website: http://wa8lmf.net/miscinfo - Scroll about two thirds of the way down the page of download links, and look for "UZ7HO".
The NET14 APRS channel project has been terminated due to QRM. http://net14.org.uk/
Some of the activity has moved to 30 meters and some of that is now running as Robust Packet (RP). It's been fascinating following the RP reports of N1ZZZ and his travels around the world.
A new 9k6 (and better) low priced radio/tracker is available for pre-order: https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=171
Original posting: http://www.tapr.org/pipermail/aprssig/2013-October/042430.html
The APRS authors are cleaning up the symbol handling and automating it. This will be a good thing. https://github.com/hessu/aprs-deviceid/blob/master/README.md Original posting: http://www.tapr.org/pipermail/aprssig/2013-October/042435.html
Thanks to Tom and crew for making the BALDI packet logs available. Very interesting and useful but that's another post: http://northwest.aprs2.net/BALDI/
I can't think of anything else now - it's been quiet. Too busy playing with the NW-MESH servers to do much on packet but that's changing soon.
Bill, WA7NWP
One interesting item I missed on the last What's New posting was the presence of the local HamWan nodes on the APRS-IS.
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?hamwan*
HamWAN, a high speed data network in the Puget Sound region, continues to make good progress - check it out:
web page: http://www.hamwan.org
discussion: http://mail.hamwan.org/mailman/listinfo/psdr_hamwan.org
It only costs $200 out of pocket to finance a client node and it's a good education in networking, microwaves and RF engineering.
---
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Bill Vodall
> The question of what's new in APRS came up at our discussion today at the Summer Gathering... It's an interesting subject.
It's been a couple months. Not much new in APRS to report...
DCC was a great time. You missed out if you missed out...
UZ7HO website is back after a brief missing in action with a new URL address: http://uz7.ho.ua/modem_beta/history.txt. Version .57 of the soundmodem TNC is now available.
UZ7HO SCM v0.57b changes:
- Reduced CPU load.
- Added option that disable waterfall in minimized state.
- Added option of the application priority that improves the work of the modem
during peaks of CPU load (decreased gaps and stuttering sound during
transmission).
A full installer is available at the WA8LMF website: http://wa8lmf.net/miscinfo - Scroll about two thirds of the way down the page of download links, and look for "UZ7HO".
The NET14 APRS channel project has been terminated due to QRM. http://net14.org.uk/
Some of the activity has moved to 30 meters and some of that is now running as Robust Packet (RP). It's been fascinating following the RP reports of N1ZZZ and his travels around the world.
A new 9k6 (and better) low priced radio/tracker is available for pre-order: https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=171
Original posting: http://www.tapr.org/pipermail/aprssig/2013-October/042430.html
The APRS authors are cleaning up the symbol handling and automating it. This will be a good thing. https://github.com/hessu/aprs-deviceid/blob/master/README.md Original posting: http://www.tapr.org/pipermail/aprssig/2013-October/042435.html
Thanks to Tom and crew for making the BALDI packet logs available. Very interesting and useful but that's another post: http://northwest.aprs2.net/BALDI/
I can't think of anything else now - it's been quiet. Too busy playing with the NW-MESH servers to do much on packet but that's changing soon.
Bill, WA7NWP
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
What's New in APRS - Sept 2013
What's new in APRS - here's a quick list as of September, 2013.
- Robust Packet APRS on HF with the SCS Tracker TNC
- Improved sound card packet decoding and bad bit correction with:
- Dier Wolf
- UZ7HO modems
- APRSISCE new features
- shrieks
- APRSC IS server
- APRX (http://wiki.ham.fi/Aprx.en) digipeater and IGate. It runs on the Rpi just fine and does the viscous digipeating for fill-ins. It doesn't have quite the path munging capabilities of DIGINED yet, but it appears to be heading that direction. APRX also runs great on OpenWRT boxes. APRX is even in the OpenWRT package feeds if you don't feel like compiling it. (ZPO)
- Viscous digipeating for fill-in digipeaters
- Beta build #26 of YAAC (Yet Another APRS Client)
- Release 1.2.3 of APRSDroid - new features and bug fixes - ttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.aprsdroid.app
- Cut Bank, MT has a fill in digipeater (YEAH!!!!!) - http://map.findu.com/w7dpk
- A new version of the Kenwood D710, the D710g, has been announced. It will have a built in GPS.
- APRStt seems to be evolving - http://aprs.org/aprstt.html
- Dedicated TNC (http://www.tnc-x.com/TNCPi.htm) for the Raspberry PI (N8GNJ)
- Dedicated digipeaters for the TNC-X.. Not so new but interesting anyway.
- http://tnc-x.com/XDigi.htm
- http://www.usmartdigi.com/
- Microsat WX3INI - http://www.rpc-electronics.com/microsat-wx3in1.php
- YagTracker - http://www.rpc-electronics.com/yagtracker.php
- BPQAPRS which now runs on Linux (Raspberry PI, etc), LINBPQ, and has a good start on a WEB GUI. http://www.cantab.net/users/john.wiseman/Documents/InstallingLINBPQ.htm
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