APRS – Page 2 – Anchorage Amateur Radio Club

Great Alaska ShakeOut 2018 – Area Hams Participate

Hams in the Anchorage, Mat-Su Valley, and Kenai Peninsula areas participated in the 2018 Great Alaska ShakeOut Earthquake Drill on October 18. At the appointed time, 10:18 a.m., from the...

By Kent Petty Published October 25, 2018 APRS, ARES, Public Service, RSOC Operations

Great Alaska ShakeOut 2018

The Anchorage Area ARES group and Anchorage Amateur Radio Club ask for your participation in the The Great Alaska ShakeOut “Earthquake Drill”, tomorrow, October 18, 2018 at 10:18 a.m. We...

By Kent Petty Published October 17, 2018 APRS, ARES, Events, Public Service, RSOC Operations

Hot Transmitter on 147.93 MHz Found and Shut Down

On the afternoon of October 10, a transmitter keyed up on 147.93 MHz. This happens to be the input frequency for club’s Grubstake VHF repeater (147.33/93). As a result, the...

By Kent Petty Published October 12, 2018 APRS, Direction Finding, RF Experiments, RSOC Operations

Update – Who Are Our Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts? We’ve got a project!

NOTE: Please see below. We had some problems with the form attached to this previous post, so I you submitted the form, we probably didn’t get it. We’re taking a different...

By Kent Petty Published September 4, 2018 APRS, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Repeaters, RSOC Operations

Who Are Our Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts? We’ve got a project!

There’s a great opportunity for our Raspberry Pi enthusiasts to take on an important and interesting project for the club. If successful, it might be something that many of our...

By Kent Petty Published August 31, 2018 APRS, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Repeaters, RSOC Operations

Public Service Hands-on Training Opportunity

The annual Walk and Roll for Hope is tomorrow and the AARC is providing comm support for the event. The field crew is ready to deploy, and Brandon, KL7BSC, will...

By Kent Petty Published May 4, 2018 APRS, Education, Events, Public Service, Repeaters, RSOC Operations, Volunteer

Eagle River Valley APRS Digipeater Activated

A recent need was noted to improve APRS digipeater coverage throughout the area. To help support that need, KL5T fired up his Kantronics KPC3+ TNC driving an Alinco DR-1200 2-meter...

By Kent Petty Published October 30, 2017 APRS, ARES, Mesh Networking

APRS – Anchorage / Mat-Su In Need of Several Digipeaters

We’ve conducted a review of APRS activity in the Anchorage / Mat-Su Valley areas. The review included analysis of activity directly detected on the KL7AA-10 Digipeater / I-Gate located on...

By Kent Petty Published October 30, 2017 APRS, ARES, Mesh Networking

New KL7AA-10 APRS Digipeater / I-Gate Operational

We’ve been testing our new WX3in1 APRS Digipeater / I-Gate for several weeks now at the AARC clubhouse. We’ve determined it’s been working as advertised so Kevin Opalka, KL2NV, and...

By Kent Petty Published October 11, 2017 APRS, Mesh Networking

Hillside South Trespasser!

We were prepping for the move of the WX3in1 APRS system to our Hillside South location. Part of the prep included a need to make a site visit to evaluate...

By Kent Petty Published October 11, 2017 APRS

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