Portable APRS digipeater interest?

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Thinking about making an APRS digipeater / weather station that I could take with us. Basically thinking a remote (as in not wired to the trailer) station, sending data to the actual digipeater (which would be in the Airstream) via an Adafruit LoRa on 433 MHz.

The LoRa is packet radio, but should be able to manipulate how many packets are sent to embed some Morse encoded (not encrypted) data like temperature, wind speed so it could be picked up on a non APRS HT if within 100-200m of the sending unit. Putting it out on the digipeater of course makes it simple to check the campground's temperature & wind when going into town or whatever.

Have done some of this (weather station, DireWolf, microcontroller <-> Raspberry Pi comm via GPIO pins, some packet) but haven't put it together. Thinking it could make a fun Github project if there's any interest.

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Sounds like an interesting project and I look forward to hearing your progress.

I have been disappointed in digipeater coverage away from metropolitan areas. If I understand you expect access to be local, not transmitted across the APRS network except in the happy occurrence of being in range of another forwarding digipeater.

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Originally Posted by SVTOTEM

Sounds like an interesting project and I look forward to hearing your progress.

I have been disappointed in digipeater coverage away from metropolitan areas. If I understand you expect access to be local, not transmitted across the APRS network except in the happy occurrence of being in range of another forwarding digipeater.

Cool, thanks.



... hooking to a wifi hotspot and making it an igate is on the table. Igate vs fwd only digipeater would be as simple as swapping SD cards in the Pi, or IIRC there are some configuration options in both DireWolf and APRX (at least I think it's APRX, haven't messed with it in about a year). Either way, I think you could use one of the GPIO pins to select a configuration at startup.