52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2026 - Week 8: Experiment with APRS!

Challenge for 2026-02-16 - 2026-02-22

Category: 📻 - Difficulty: 🟠

Experiment with APRS!

Whether you set up your own station or look into how APRS works or the history of it is up to your imagination. What did you find out? Did you see APRS packets? How do you they work?

Toots mentioning this challenge

DateUserUser ScoreStatusToot Summary & Link
January 24, 2026 13:37 UTCg7kse@mastodon.radio2Success!2 @hamchallenge things going on today. I dug out my APRS handheld and took it out to the forest for this mornings dog walk.Despite having RX at home I forgot to turn it on...conclusion. 2m APRS still works (but the 70cm LoRa stuff seems at least lighter) HC08S Part 2 to follow
February 12, 2026 11:58 UTCmischk@bunt.social4Success!I play a lot with LoRa-APRS recently. You can stalk my call DK4MJ-7 on aprs.fi... With the lora transceiver I can also receive messages. Im working on a handheld device with a keyboard to also send... Today I installed aprsd and aprsd WebChat. I'll keep it online for today so you can send messages via aprs to DK4MJ-7 and I may answer later. @hamchallenge HC08S

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