{"id":7626,"date":"2025-08-22T16:48:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/?p=7626"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:18:41","slug":"aprs-and-echolink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/aprs-and-echolink\/","title":{"rendered":"APRS and Echolink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now in testing mode at The Bluff and performing well.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some details provided by Peter VK5BE.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">At The Bluff on Friday August 15th, a new 2m folded dipole was installed by Nick VK5NJS and together with the digipeater and interfacing PC\u00a0 installed by James VK3JBM, an APRS repeater is now operational on 145.175 MHz.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">Initial reports are picking up location packets up to 100km away.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">The APRS map can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprs.fi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.aprs.fi<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">Also, while James was on site, he installed a new Echolink gateway on our 2m linked repeater network.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">Many thanks guys.<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nick-aprs-antenna-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nick-aprs-antenna-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nick-aprs-antenna-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nick VK5NJS installing the APRS antenna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/aprs-rigs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/aprs-rigs.jpg 500w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/aprs-rigs-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Echolink equipment at top with APRS below<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7639,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions\/7639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}