[OZAPRS] Fill In Digi needed

[Scott Evans]

Bob,

If you are using a Raspberry Pi and you are not interested running it as a
full desktop style, you can run it headless and use APRX. This supports the
native Linux kernel ax25 stack or just using a serial port (usb types vary
but generally most works ok) and I believe that you can also get direwolf
to talk with it as well. There's lots of examples of different types of
setup.

As with all things YMMV!

On Tue., 7 Nov. 2017, 13:58 Bob, <vk2byf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm Bob, VK2BYF, in Nowra
>
> Having lost our local digi some years ago and our local ham population
> being very sparse we seem to have dropped off the APRS map.
>
> My Tiny Track in my motor vehicle can't be heard by the nearest Digi,
> VK2HIM near Gerringong, until I gain some altitude.
>
> To get myself back on the APRS map I decided to build a RX only Igate
> using a Raspberry Pi, RTL-SDR & direwolf which seems to work ok.
>
> I experimented with a laptop running direwolf, KA2DDO's YAAC and a
> FT-817 as a fill in digi, Wide 1-1, which also seem to work ok.
>
> The next phase was going to be to setup a RF digi using a cheap Chinese
> VHF/UHF Radio to fill in the local RF hole we have here in the
> Bomaderry, Nowra area.
>
> Knowing very little about APRS but the basics and having been monitoring
> this forum for a while, I have more questions than answers.
>
> A wide 1-1 to fill a local hole is that rite or wrong?
>
> RX only IGate to fill a local RF hole, Is this going to cause problems?
>
> Should I even bother to build a proper RF in and out digi?
>
> What is the best configuration just to fill in a local RF hole and get a
> fair section of the Princes highway back on the map?
>
> BTW I prefer to run things on Linux. YAAC, a java applications work very
> nicely on Linux.
>
> Regards Bob vk2byf
>
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