[aprssig] APRS & IRLP / Echolink

Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf2 at aol.com
Wed Jun 14 11:37:44 EDT 2006


vk3jfk at amsat.org wrote:
> Dave,
>
> I believe Echolink requires you to have a TNC dedicated to the APRS task. It
> will also use UI-View32 in TNC mode but will not in Host mode or APRS-IS
> mode.
>
> The version of Echolink I've been running will has no facility to allow
> direct APRS-IS connections. This is a bit old fashioned especially when
> Echolink is internet based.
>
> If you find out that there is a way to do it let me know.
>
> Cheers
> Richard
> VK3JFK
>
>   


About a year ago, I wrote to the Echolink author suggesting he implement 
support for the AGW Packet Engine so that Echolink could share a radio 
and TNC with other APRS apps.  I never heard back from him.




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