Misc. Packet & APRS Info & Tips

LCARES Packet Frequency 145.010 (Effective 2/1/2009)

Effective 3/1/2009, the Packet Net will be an Unproto (not-connected) net

 

Lake County Area Packet Stations:

K4FC Bassville Park 145.010 Primary Digipeater
K4FC-1 Bassville Park 145.010 BBS for Local Mail
K4FC-10 Bassville Park 145.010 TelPac Node (Note: must connect via K4FC)
N4FLA-6 Buckhill 144.390 APRS Digipeater
N4FLA-10 Tavares (EOC) 145.070 TelPac Node
W8EHH-10 South Lake 145.070 TelPac Node
W4VLG-10 Villages 145.050 TelPac Node

 

A good packet primer is located at: http://www.kc2rlm.info/soundcardpacket/index.html

A good explanation of APRS: http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/aprs/pos-reporting.html

Instructions for Unproto Communications:
Using Hyperterm
Using AGWPE & UISS

Radio/Computer Interfaces:
 Buxcom Rascal
Byonics Tiny Trak
 Tigertronics SignaLink

Software:
AGWPE (Sound Card TNC Emulator)
UISS  (Terminal Program)
WinPack
UI-View
WinPack/UI-View Registration

Standard APRS SSID's:
Source: http://info.aprs.net/index.php?title=SymbolsAndSSIDs

-0 Home station, or a home station running IGate. (note: "-0" not needed- automatically presumed if no SSID)
-1 Digipeater, home station running a relay Digipeater and/or WX Digipeater
-2 Digipeater on 70CM
-3 Digipeater
-4 HF to VHF gateway
-5 IGate (not home station)
-6 Operations via satellite
-7 Handheld radios (Kenwood TH-D7, Yaesu VX-8R, ICOM D-Star, etc)
-8 Boats, sailboats and ships (maybe 802.11 in the future)
-9 Mobiles
-10 APRS-IS only - APRS with no radio
-11 APRStouch-tone users (and the occasional balloon)
-12 Portable units such as laptops, camp sites, etc.
-13 Not defined
-14 Truckers
-15 HF stations

 

"Standard" Packet SSID's:
Source: http://www.mi-drg.org/ssid.shtml
(there is no "official" list)

-0  home stations (note: "-0" not needed- automatically presumed if no SSID)
-1  home station personal mailboxes (usually a TNC-based PBBS)
-2  gateways
-3  full-service BBS's  (those that forward mail/bulletins)
-4  network nodes       (having two or more radio ports that
                         perform routing functions via TCP/IP,NetROM, etc.)
                        (Can be combined with BBS's that also perform routing)
-5  console/keyboard -or- printer
-6  conference bridges
-7  cross-band digipeaters (and KA-nodes)
-8  cross-band digipeaters
-9  mobile / modats
-10 WL2K
-11 - unassigned -
-12 - unassigned -
-13 - unassigned -
-14 - unassigned -
-15 (often used as a downlink address when exiting the far
       end of a network connection)

 

Last update 3/31/2009