EASY APRS I-Gate and Digipeater with Direwolf TNC - Packet Radio

[@matsherwood6277]

This series is so helpful! Thank you so much for putting in the time to do this! It's a great service to the ham community! I have direwolf set up with aprsis32 on my Windows laptop now and I think I am going to go to a digi soon. I'm running a older Dell laptop with windows 11 and a digirig lite into a yaesu ft2980r with a good antenna up 20-25 feet above local terrain. I would igate as well but there is an igate about 3 miles from my home. The problem is, it is running a pretty compromised antenna and I can't make it in with my yaesu ft2d. A digipeater at my house will solve that problem as well as help the local coverage quite a bit I believe. I live in a fairly rural area between the local towns. 73 and thanks again! KE8VIK

[@ModernHam]

I am glad I could help. When everyone has the knowledge to pitch in, it helps the community as a whole, so I'm glad to get more people on the air with dire wolf.

[@kit121]

Thanks, I have my old note book with UV5R worked out very good. Thanks for your video. Great job.

[@LU1VJK]

Same here!

[@ModernHam]

Glad you all got it working!

[@johnstewart9156]

Excellent....thank you very much...73

[@ModernHam]

Of course!

[@phildurall7466]

Awesome job Billy! You have me back Digi from 1982. SWEET! 73 - KF6IF

[@RatchetFWD]

Enjoying your series, although I learned the hard way and read all the manuals two months ago 😂

[@ModernHam]

It's interesting what you miss sometimes. Glad you liking it. Next week's gonna be fun.

[@Swamp-Fox]

Easy to follow instructions with a nice blog post on your site for additional information. What more can you ask for! I have a few I-Gates in my area already. I need to do some research on the APRS network and see if it would be of benefit (or harmful) to add an additional I-Gate. Thanks!

[@ModernHam]

APRS.fi has a neat feature where you can see the coverage area of specific stations in your area. I can't remember exactly how to get there but it will map it visually after they've been active for a while.

[@LU1VJK]

TNX!!!!!!

[@JamesHannibalKH2SR]

great video!

[@ModernHam]

Thanks James!

[@KenNORTHPLAINSOR]

You videos are incredibly helpful. Thank you. Two questions. Is there a parameter in direwolf to gate position packets directly to APRS- IS? And visually see in RAW data that it infact has been gated? Do you know of documentation that covers meaning of APRS.fi RAW data? Thanks, Ken WB7QYB

[@ModernHam]

Glad the videos could be helpful. You can in fact gate position packets straight to APRS-FI. The User-Guide on the GitHub page provides the config option for this. I'm afraid KZbin will remove my comment if I put it here. To see the raw data, you need an account on Aprs.fi. You can find your station there, and select "view raw".

[@Savage.735]

Nice 💯👍

[@LU1VJK]

Hi Billy, everything is great until I see in PinPoint and aprs.fi that my position is one km from what I put in Lat and Long in the Direwolf configuration file. Has it happened to you? Thank you.

[@ModernHam]

Not me personally, but I'd recheck that lat/lon format. It's a little weird.

[@WadeAbout]

Any idea how to address which cm108 device you want to ptt from on windows. When multiple are attached it just chooses one and sadly it’s not the correct one

[@ModernHam]

Sadly, this is a problem that needs solves across the board in linux too. Besides adjusting the ADEVICE numbers for the sound card, or looking at the device manager for a PTT COM port, it's kind of a tossup every reboot. You should be able to select the soundcard with ADEVICE NUM1 NUM2.

[@WT2D-Michel]

The audio is out of sync with the video.

[@ModernHam]

Thanks, I'll take a closer look next time to fix it before it goes up. I've got one I recorded at the same time coming out today so it may be the same way.