Blog
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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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Taking the map where there is no signal
How the APRS Connect map keeps drawing with no signal, the difference between the tile cache and a downloaded region, and what a radio still does offline.
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A digipeater that waits its turn
APRS Connect 1.8.0 can run your phone as a fill-in digipeater that stays quiet when another digipeater already repeated the packet, or as a wide-area one if that is genuinely your job.
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Where your signal has actually reached a digipeater
The coverage layer in APRS Connect 1.8.0 is a heat map of the places a transmitter provably reached a digipeater from: your own, everyone's, or one digipeater's footprint.
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Your phone as an IGate
APRS Connect 1.8.0 can gate traffic between your radio and APRS-IS in either direction, and it transmits only for stations your radio has actually heard.
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Retry when heard: a message that waits for the other station
Why APRS messages fail, how retry when heard waits for the other station, what the Waiting to be heard list shows, and where QRX fits in.
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APRS Connect is free over APRS-IS. Here is what Pro pays for.
APRS Connect is free over APRS-IS; Pro is $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year. What is free, what Pro adds, and what happens when it ends.