aprs
It seems like it might be pretty easy to put a #hamradio #amateurradio #aprs or perhaps #lora tracker on my son’s bike to be able to track where he is on a race course but I am having a tough time figuring out what I would need to do that.
Can anyone point me in the direction of a good how-to?
OMG OMG I am still trying to figure out APRS and was trying out sending messages to OTA at https://aprsota.org and I got a reply back over the air! My first APRS message back from someone.
So awesome!
Well… today was quite a wet and rainy day. Not a lot of activity here other than blowing the dust off an AX.25 stack I've been working on for a little while. This is written in pure Python and implements both AX.25 and APRS standards, including connected mode. It's shipped as a library to include in your Python (asyncio) applications.
https://codeberg.org/sjlongland/aioax25/
https://github.com/sjlongland/aioax25/
I'll probably do a release soon, as I've spent the day refining the API a bit and cleaning up the unit tests. I've finally now got 100% code coverage on this and it's being tested on Python 3.9-3.14.
One thing I'm considering is some sort of stream socket protocol (TCP, AF_UNIX and maybe websocket) that can be used to expose the functions of the stack to a separate program. Something like the AGWPE protocol in concept — but different as I don't want any legal trouble. I also think the AGWPE protocol is a bit limiting.
Out on vacation with my family. Running #APRS as we drive, rarely making to the internet. Tried texting one driver from the hotel as they drove by. We’ll see if they see it.
This morning I was also listening to 146.520, and heard CQ #POTA. I was able to get back to them, and they were able to get the rest rather quickly to activate the peak.
#HamRadio fun makes me happy.