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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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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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What happens after you press Send on an APRS message
How an APRS message travels, what the six delivery states in APRS Connect mean, the retry schedule, and how to read the message detail timeline.
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TH-D75 owners: your radio and your phone on one screen
Connect a Kenwood TH-D74 or TH-D75 to APRS Connect over Bluetooth or USB, put the TNC in KISS mode, and run it beside APRS-IS.
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Hosting and chasing APRS OTA from the Services tab
How to host and chase APRS OTA ops from the Services tab in APRS Connect, what the bot sends back, and why hosting needs a radio.
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Checking in to #APRSThursday from your phone
A first #APRSThursday check-in in APRS Connect, end to end: the ANSRVR directory, the net room, the roster, APRSPH logging and delivery states.
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APRS Connect 1.7.0: messages that wait for a station, and net rooms that count
A failed message can now wait for its station and try again when it is heard, and a net room shows how many are on the net and who checked in tonight.
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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.
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APRS without a TNC
APRS Connect has a software TNC built in: the phone encodes and decodes the packet tones itself, so any radio with a speaker and microphone connection can work APRS through an audio cable.
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APRS Connect 1.3: six kinds of connection
Version 1.3 connects to radios six ways — Bluetooth Classic and LE TNCs, USB serial, a built-in audio modem, KISS over TCP, and APRS-IS — running side by side as named channels.
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What is APRS?
The Automatic Packet Reporting System is a live data network run over amateur radio: position beacons, messages, and weather, relayed by digipeaters and bridged to the internet. Here is how it fits together.