[OZAPRS] APRS Igate/Sgate on Raspberry Pi?

[Andrew Rich]

Recently amateur radio hobbyist WB20SZ wrote in to us to let us know about his work with creating an easy to build receive only APRS internet gateway (IGate) with a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR dongle. The process involves using WB20SZ’s “Dire Wolf” software which is a free Linux based APRS encoder/decoder. He writes that it can be used to observe APRS traffic, as a digipeater, APRStt gateway or Internet Gateway (IGate). Setting up the APRS IGate is a simple matter of piping the received APRS audio from rtl_fm into the direwolf software. Instructions for installing direwolf can be found here.

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Andrew Rich
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> On 22 May 2016, at 14:22, Norm McMillan <vk3xci at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> OK guys, how is it done? Links? ideas? I want to put my Igate away at the back of the shed. this seems like the ideal way to do it.
> 
> What do I know so far?
> RPi will run a form of linux off a memory card, I think.
> Same, same a version of Xastir
> There is a hardware TNC (TNCX?) which directly interfaces to the RPi board
> A USB soundcard is a possibility but there are issues.
> 
> norm,
> vk3xci
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