[OZAPRS] APRS Igate/Sgate on Raspberry Pi?

[Mark Jessop]

I can confirm the rtl_fm + direwolf approach does work, VK5NEX-5 has been
running that since last christmas without a hiccup.

However, do note that the performance of the RTL dongles is pretty
terrible, particularly in the presence of pagers. In my case that was fine,
as it only had to hear packets off the nearby VK5RMN digipeater, but if you
want something with a bit more range it might be better to use something
like a TNC-X Raspberry Pi shield with a more robust radio.

You certainly don't need to run a GUI program like Xastir to do this. Both
the direwolf and aprx approaches will operate headless, and you can just
administer them via a ssh client.

- Mark VK5QI

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Andrew Rich <vk4tec at tech-software.net>
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> > On 22 May 2016, at 14:22, Norm McMillan <vk3xci at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
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