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APRS & Soundmodem

Posted on 2013-12-12 by James

I was not satisfied with my prior results with the APRS testing, so I setup soundmodem in an Ubuntu environment on my trusty netbook and set-off to decode packets. As expected, everything went well – soundmodem was decoding local packets … Continue reading →

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AFSK packet investigation

Posted on 2013-11-04 by James

To further my investigation as to why the soundmodem TNC appears to be flaky, I decided to scope the output of some local APRS transmissions. After setting the squelch to the point where no background noise was seen / heard, … Continue reading →

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Soundmodem update

Posted on 2013-11-04 by James

So I had some initial success with the Raspberry Pi and using soundmodem as a software TNC for APRS packet radio. The success seems to have been short-lived. I am able to decode packets from test wave files that I’ve … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi & Soundmodem – It works!!

Posted on 2013-10-31 by James

It is a bout time for an update on my Raspberry Pi APRS project. (Part 01) Many months ago I was working on getting a Raspberry Pi working for APRS work. I was experiencing a ton of issues with getting … Continue reading →

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