Kurt,
I don't know how familiar you are with the radio, but you need to have
the TNC on and at least receiving on the 70cm band (D inside a black
square) and TNC mode to APRS12. I'd played around with just turning on APRS
with a TeleMega before, found it didn't "just work" and left it at that. It
made perfect sense once I thought about switching the TNC bands tonight;
I'm usually on 2m for APRS in order to show up on the US network.
Neat thought: you could set your radio to Rx on 70cm and then possibly
Tx the packets back out on the 2m band. Quick-and-dirty 2m APRS system
location track for rockets. (Or high-altitude balloons in some of my
cases.) I didn't dig around much in the TeleGPS APRS packet info, but the
icon is currently an airplane. I usually like to have mine set to the
balloon or rocket symbols.
Good luck,
Doug
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Kurt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Doug, Thanks, that's reassuring. I'll work with the unit again later
> and see what I can get. I've selected what looks like APRS in the
> AltOSUI program and I've tried the TeleGPS program too v1.5. I'll work
> with it some more.
> It's a nice small unit. I like the footprint Kurt KC9LDH
>
> *From:* Douglas Bertelsen <[email protected]>
> *To:* Altus Metrum <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 30, 2015 8:49 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [altusmetrum] Contact Form
>
> Check and make sure you have APRS settings 310 and 311 on the right band
> (at least B for Rx) and 1200baud. I just tried to set mine up after
> enabling the packets on the TeleGPS. Works like a champ now.
>
> Doug
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Kevin Trojanowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> As I recall, APRS is turned off by default on the TeleGPS. It sounds like
> APRS isn't turned on; you'll get the AltusMetrum packets (which are much
> shorter and don't sound like APRS packets), and the APRS packets at the
> interval you've configured via AltOS UI.
>
> -Kevin
>
> *From:* altusmetrum [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf
> Of *Kurt
> *Sent:* Friday, January 30, 2015 7:30 PM
> *To:* Altus Metrum
> *Subject:* Re: [altusmetrum] Contact Form
>
>
>
> Ummmm,
>
> I was under the impression that the TeleGPS could be used a a straight
> forward
> APRS GPS tracker and used with a D72A. I have the 1.5 v of the
> programming software and am not receiving packets. I flashed the unit to
> 1.5 I can hear data coming in but doesn't sound anything like an APRS
> signal. Did I make a mistake of ordering? I've tried AltOS UI and TeleGPS
> 1.5. I was able to connect to the unit and reprogram it, change the
> frequency etc but I don't see a direct option for
> APRS tracking. Data rates are too fast I believe. Did I mistakenly
> mislead myself? Can I return for refund if it's not programmable to a
> straight GPS tracker? Kurt KC9LDH
>
>
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