Budget APRS Mapping Solution and Portable Battery Box

This is one of several "homemade" APRS rigs that I cobbled together over the last year. Since filming this several months back, I've moved on to an integrated rig for mobile APRS use (the Yaesu FTM-400DR), but I still use this battery box setup as part of an APRS base station for field work. In its current configuration, the smartphone has been swapped out for an inexpensive Windows 8.1 tablet (a Micro Center Winbook) running APRSISCE/32. With this full featured APRS client, I'm able to establish beacons for objects or events reported on the voice nets, assign tactical calls to objects (SAG 1, etc), Digipeat, and IGate as necessary. I will likely do a video on this newer setup down the line.

For details more details on my other APRS projects, check out the APRS section of www.WCARES.org.

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