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2023 Radio Topics

VHF APRS iGate

PlatformRaspberry Pi
softwaredixprs
Radio HardwareTM-D710
Frequency144.800MHz
CallsignGM4SLV-2

Software

iGate Software : aprx or Dixprs

Using Linux AX25 network device

/etc/ax25/axports

Everything starts by a script, with options commented out as necessary to start whichever software is required. I'm currently (— John Pumford-Green 24/04/23 15:34) using Dixprs instead of aprx

Dixprs seems to be moribund, the google site where help and information was available is gone but Dixprs works well and has handy features - such as responding to ?APRSxxx queries.

ax_start.sh

Aprx Config file :

Dixprs Config File

Hardware

I use a TNC-Pi attached via the GPIO serial port connections. Something had to be done to stop the serial port having a Linux Console attached, in the boot configuration, but it's been many years and I can't remember the details.

See Also

The iGate appears on aprs.fi as GM4SLV-2.

Part of the pi

John Pumford-Green Wed May 4 10:33:37 2022

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