It can also be used with other software for aprs, bbs. Arsfi, a nonprofit public benefit corporation with no beneficial owners if you use winlink radio email or correspond regularly with someone who does, please contribute to arsfi. It can be used to decode packet radio, aprs and telemetry from amateur radio satellites. Agwpe freeware for aprs message receipt and display. The 2400 baud agwpe modem is compatible with a tcm3105 modem chip modified with a 8mhz crystal for the modem clock and uses a 2165 and 3970 hz tone pair. Client software for users of the automatic packet reporting system amateur radio network. Packet and aprs belong to the large family of digital modes. Aprs for linux is a multifaceted system for use with packet radio by hams, it allows the monitoring of real time geographical information such as the position of vehicles, the status of weather, radio direction finding and much much more.
Unlike mixw, the soundcard dspvirtual tnc is a separate module installed as a driver. It can use a singleport tnc in native mode, a single or dualport tnc in kiss mode or the agw packet engine in order to transmit on up to four radio ports. Automatic configuration of soundmodem and ax25d for 1k2, 4k8 and 9k6 bauds, yes audio. It can also be used as a virtual tnc for other applications such as aprsis32, uiview32, xastir, aprstw, yaac, uiss, linux ax25, sartrack, rms express, and.
The sound card in the computer can be used along with free software to make and decode messages. Setting up the freeware version of sv2agws agwpe dsp tnc and tnc. It must be running before uiview or other software that requires it is opened. Buy weather stations, wireless weather stations, emergency radios, barometers, hygrometers, lightning detectors, thermometers, wind. Your computer will perform the functions previously provided by a tnc hardware box. Packet radio tnc with the raspberry pi updated 21218 the pi plus a usb soundcard is all you need to get started with packet radio. Steps for using soundmodem uz7ho as a packet modem at. It can be used standalone to observe aprs traffic, as a tracker, digipeater, aprstt gateway, or internet gateway igate. Easyterm for windows a communications program for aea and kantronics tncs. The raspberry pi rpi is a good platform for running a software tnc, aprs digipeater, and igate. The bottom line is no, there is no software that can rival those boxes, as both the pk900 and pk232 let you do soundcard modes and the built in hf modes with arq.
Dire wolf, designed especially for aprs functions and several multimode sound card programs, including mixw and multipsk if you encounter problems with agwpe, you subscribe to a special agwpe yahoo group email list to ask for help from the agwpe user community, which includes the agwpe author, george sv2agw. Windows computer with soundcard interface signalink usb or equiv. Com73 if that is what rms express and hw virtual serial port are set to goto top agw packet engine. In the years since the peak of the hardware tnc based activity software for sending and receiving the afsk packet signal has been created for the sound card in your personal computer. Packet radio lives on through open source software. Raspberry pi packet tnc, aprs digipeater, igate august 2017 additional comments for raspbian stretch.
Xastir is graphical software for linux that generates aprs packets. Tune your baofeng to the appropriate aprs frequency. Packet radio with the raspberry pi mike richards g4wnc. An igate doesnt require a lot of expense, just some sort of receiver, your computer with a broadband connection and soundcard, some free software, and an antenna. Aprs uses 1200 baud and a serialparallel port for ptt. Soundmodem is a software program designed to use your pc as a virtual tnc modem soundmodem is used to connect to a packet network or another station using packet. Soundcard tuning aid option, and youll see what the dsp software within agwpe. The software allows a standard pc soundcard to be used as a packet radio modem with all processing done on the main computer cpu. The sw makes you read the help pages before you can use the software. The software packet radio tnc i am developing a software dualport packet radio tnc that uses a soundcard as a modem and supports ax. Randy gawtry, timewaves president, and i came up with a way to run the soundcard through the.
It can be used standalone to observe aprs traffic, as a tracker, digipeater, aprstt gateway, or internet gateway igate in the early days of amateur packet radio, it was necessary to use an expensive terminal node controller tnc with specialized. Qtmm is a simple afsk1200 decoder that uses the computers sound card for input. Since many new radios already have vox operation built in. This allows the radio to be keyed via software instead of manually.
The uiview32 aprs program has a meteor scatter mode setting that is useful for sending very short packet with your grid square at variable intervals suited for meteor scatter. Authored by a greek ham, awg packet engine or awgpe may be the best known windows packet. Install and setup agwpe according to the instructions mentioned above. Soundcard interface for aprspacket happy 4th of july to all of my american visitors and also to everyone else, although i dont imagine that it is quite the same. It is the brainchild of bob bruninga, wb4apr, a senior research engineer at the united states naval academy and first came into use during the late 1980s. Aprs messenger is capable of supporting both the sound card modes on hf, and a second hf or vhf tnc, either hardware or software i. Packet engine pro will only work with packet programs that have been written to take advantage of agwpe but there are many, including terminal, dx cluster, aprs, and digipeater programs. This software is the packet sound card engine required by uiview aprs software and some other sound card software. With free and open source software, a linux pc with a sound card can.
It can also be used with other software for aprs, bbs, satellite packet, and regular packet work. It envolves mapping, gps tracking, packet radio, etc aprsdroid aprs for android. I am developing a software dualport packetradio tnc that uses a soundcard as a modem and supports ax. You will find it helpful to create a windows shortcut to this file and put it on your desktop, or the task bar or some other easily accessible spot. Pinpoint aprs is a free software application that together with some radio equipment and accessories allows you to visually track people and assets using amateur radio ham radio equipment using maps. Under the tnc menu, select 1200baud and allow the program to adjust parameters. Setting up an aprs igate hiwaay informationinternet. The 1200 baud sound card modem uses the standard tone pair of 1200 hz and 2200 hz.
Here you find uz7ho soundcard packet modem and be able to download it. I built the receive and transmit cables that connect the output of the radio to the input on the soundcard, and the output on the soundcard to the input on the radio. This really took off when gps became available and maps were integrated into the system for tactical situational awareness of. This software is the packet sound card engine required by uiview aprs software and.
It is designed to stand alone and does not monitor other traffic on the frequency. Agwpe interfaces aprs bbs pms digipeater dx cluster messaging nodes bpq32, xnet satellite. Your computer with a soundcard interface and packet software will perform the functions previously provided by a tnc hardware box figure 5. The soundmodem has two tcpip interfaces to link with client application. By using direwolf, packet radio is possible with both sound cards and kiss hardware. Not that i have that many visitors from anywhere, but its the thought that counts. Instead of using a dedicated hardware tnc, the pi can be coaxed to do the hard work of managing the packet protocol. Agwpecompatible programs sound card packet with agwpe. Figure 4 basic conguration of a hardwarebased packet. In packet radio, many times, there is a piece of hardware a terminal node controller a.
Messages shorter messages in aprs are sent over the air as a series of alternating tones. But even if your local area has lots of repeaters, the addition of an igate only enhances the quality of aprs coverage. It can be used standalone to observe aprs traffic, as a digipeater, aprstt gateway, or internet gateway igate. Installing and configuring uz7hos soundmodem and easyterm programs for packet radio youd need. Always check to see that this soundcard has been selected in the software directly controlling the signalink. It has been tested on windows xp, vista, 7, 8, 10 and has proved stable in operation. The round radio buttons in the transmit area to the right of the waterfall display allow you to choose which bandmode to transmit on, when sending a message. The soundmodem may be used to build emcomm, aprs, bbs, node station.
Soundmodem is compatible with all programs that work with the agw packet engine agwpe. The most popular seem to be delorme, street atlas, rand mcnally and precision mapping. Tnc mode is soundcard and i selected the kiss simple mode. The agw packet engine agwpe agwpe home page is a very versatile tool with many functions. Aprsbeacon the purpose of the aprsbeacon is to provide simple aprscompatible position beacons for up to three objects. Add iss packet operation to your satellite activity. Map software, like aprs software, has many variations. If you want to do aprs packet the best software is uiview16 for computers soundcard packetaprs for the pi i have used soundcard software for several years on my windowsbased computers, as it gives me the greatest flexibility and has actually been pretty cost effective. While not directly aprsis capable, it sets the standard for aprs packets. Using a sound modem tnc for vhf packet in winlink express. It can be used standalone to observe aprs traffic, as a tracker. This allows things like aprs beacons to work normally.
This amateur radio web site explains how to use the agwpe utility program to send and receive packet using the sound card of your pc instead of a tnc. Tnc that divides the stream of data in to manageable packets. Automatic packet reporting system aprs is a digital communications system that uses packet radio technology to transmit information and text messages over amateur radio. In addition to the soundcard software you figure 3 example of dopplershifted uhf ariss frequencies. I am developing a software dualport packetradio tnc that uses a soundcard as. Direwolf is a software package that replicates this process.