APRS
Lots of info
Some notes on available hardware
I have a Kenwood TM-D710A mpbile and I am setting it up to support APRS with a GPS receiver
Argent Data Systems
Products for amateur radio including APRS applications
2m Transmitter MX146 from SRB -- This is a 500 mW transmitter, $70
OpenTracker+ is open source / open hardware and uses a Motorola MCU.
Tracker2
These are controllers, connects a data stream (eg weather or gps) to a Kantronics TNC.
They now have a Tracker2 with a 5 watt 2m radio now. T2-301 $229
Byonics
Maker of TinyTrak controllers and MicroTrak transmitters
Purchased way back in 20 Aug 2010 and tossed into a "future projects" box. I got a TinyTrak4 controller kit and a MicroTrak MT8000 8 watt transmitter.
2013-Sep-03 I am thinking of using the TinyTrak+MT8000 with a Garmin GPSmap as the NMEA data source, with the Garmin Power/NMEA cable. Then I can carry it on a bicycle.
TinyTrak4
Information from the source: http://www.byonics.com/tinytrak4/
The wiki: http://www.vk7hse.hobby-site.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Setting up an iGate
Sam Buchanan's notes: http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=30180
Some random links
Links from Andy Volokitin
http://www.basarc.org/articles/quickstartguidetoaprsforsearchandrescueapplication
http://info.aprs.net/index.php?title=SAR
http://wetnet.net/~we7u/search_and_rescue.html
http://www.ringolake.com/pic_proj/gps_trak/freetrak202.html FreeTrak -
APRS software
First off I am looking at Xastir.
Xastir on my Mac Book Pro
http://www.xastir.org/ -- "Xastir provides mapping, tracking, messaging, weather, weather alerts, and Search & Rescue features over radio or internet and runs on a variety of platforms. Xastir is an open source software project maintained by Developers and Contributors from all over the globe, provided free under the GNU General Public License. From its early beginnings, Xastir has evolved into a very robust client with a rich feature set that rivals other APRS clients. "
The recommended way to run Xastir on a Mac is in a virtual machine. Okay, I can do that. But I am going to try it in a Debian 7 machine under Parallels instead of downloading their complete VMWare Fusion machine. While waiting for it to download I will look up what map data I need.
I set Debian up with Cinnamon.
I followed the instructions to build Xastir from source, which I found here: http://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Debian_Squeeze
