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What's new in APRS Connect 1.8.0
APRS Connect 1.8.0 is on Google Play: an IGate, a digipeater, a digipeater coverage map, pinned stations, a grid square tool, and a tab bar you arrange yourself. Every feature, with a link to its post and its documentation.
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Mobiles nearby: an alert when a moving station comes into range
How Mobiles nearby in APRS Connect decides a moving station is close enough to work, what the range and frequency settings do, and what it cannot see.
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Moving APRS Connect to a new phone: backup and restore
How to export an APRS Connect backup, what the file holds and leaves out, how to import it on a new phone, and how to restore Pro from the store.
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A cable instead of Bluetooth: USB serial TNCs
How to connect a KISS TNC to APRS Connect on an Android phone with a USB cable, including the permission prompt, baud rate and the Raise DTR setting.
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The APRS-IS passcode, and what receive-only means
What the APRS-IS passcode is, what a login can do without one, and how APRS Connect handles the passcode, receive-only mode, filters and server regions.
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Working the ISS digipeater from your phone
What the APRS digipeater on the International Space Station is, what you need to reach it, and how APRS Connect handles passes, beacons and messages.
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How often an APRS station should beacon
Beacon rates for fixed, walking and mobile APRS stations, how smart beaconing works, and where the timing settings are in APRS Connect.
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Keeping APRS running when the phone screen is off
How APRS Connect keeps receiving and beaconing on Android with the screen off, what the battery exemption does, and what it costs.
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WIDE1-1, WIDE2-1: choosing an APRS path
What an APRS digipeater path is, what WIDE1-1 and WIDE2-1 ask for, which path suits a mobile or a fixed station, and where APRS Connect shows it.
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Direwolf at home, the phone as the screen: KISS over TCP
Connect APRS Connect to Direwolf or another network KISS TNC over TCP, with host and port setup, channel states, reconnecting and network limits.
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APRS SSIDs explained: what -7, -9, -5 and the others mean
What the number after the dash in an APRS callsign means, the conventional use of each SSID from -0 to -15, and how to choose one for a phone.
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The audio modem hears more
In version 1.10.0 the software modem copies weaker and more distorted packets, repairs slightly damaged ones, and has a switch for how much of the phone it spends listening.
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An update for Android 1.8.0, and version 1.12.0 for iPhone
Android 1.8.0 gets an over-the-air update and iPhone gets 1.12.0 once Apple approves it. What is new on each, how to check that you have the Android update, and what is still to come on Android.