Re: [amsat-bb] APRS portable without PC ?

[Richard <ranger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kenwood has your radios you want 1 handheld and 1 mobile with APRS built in



At 03:43 PM 12/10/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi AMSATs,
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>I am already long time looking for some easy solution to send messages via 
>satellites. What I like to have is some small battery powered portable 
>station.
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>Last time I hear many amateurs about APRS, so I did surfing on the internet.
>I was little suprissed what I found. All the programs need PCs to let the 
>system work. It is even very tricky to have an GPS with TNC haha.
>The only thing APRS does do is recieve GPS data and send it to the nearest 
>digi.
>
>Is there no TNC EPROM program that can do this stand-alone ?
>Just GPS connected to TNC and ready....
>Or RS232 terminal to TNC and ready to send messages via APRS...
>(packet I already have it portable without PC) :-)
>
>Sometimes I really don't understand why such simple modes have to work with 
>so fast computers and complex computer programs.
>
>73 de PE1RAH, William
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