[Phillip Beall]

All,

At the Club meeting on December 17th, one of the presentations will be on APRS.  As a primer if anyone is interested in reading a little introduction to the topic I can recommend this one – Introduction to APRS by N2RAC (Joseph Angelo B “DU2XXR” Racoma). It is chock full of great information, illustrations and references.  In fact, I wish we had found it earlier because we replicated a lot of his material as we were gathering information for our presentation.   LOL  Regardless, N2RAC deserves full credit for a really nice overview.  I encourage everyone to look it over before the December 17th meeting.

Phillip

[Phillip Beall]

All,

As I have continued researching material for our upcoming meeting I have come across other information that I wanted to pass along here in the Club forums.

If you enjoyed the piece above, then please try this link – Automatic Packet Reporting System.  When you click that link it will open a PDF file for you to read.  The piece is by Rick Fletcher (W7YP) and was a primer on APRS that he did for his club (Flathead Valley Amateur Radio Club (FVARC)) in Montana.

Both mention the “father of APRS”, Bob Bruninga (WB4APR) SK.  I wanted to share what the ARRL said upon Bruninga’s passing in February of this year (2022) – ARRL News: APRS Developer Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, SK

There are clearly a lot of genius types in the hobby.  Bruninga was obviously one of those.  He left quite a lasting legacy.

Phillip

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