[aprssig] Thank you Re: AnyTone AT-D878UVII Plus

[David Andrzejewski]

I might be wrong but I thought the UVII Plus has full APRS in it, it's 
the previous versions of this radio that do not?

- Dave

On 12/9/2021 21:58, MJ Inabnit wrote:
> Thank you Stephen,
>
> I'll forward this off to him shortly.
>
> Shame they wouldn't give it full aprs capability :(
>
> 73
> j
>
> On 12/9/21 6:55 PM, Stephen H Smith wrote:
>> On 12/9/2021 8:19 PM, MJ Inabnit wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> A local ham, who has never ventured into either APRS nor DMR has asked
>>> me if this radio would work on our analog (144.390) aprs network.  I
>>> don't know anyone who owns one.
>>>
>>> Thank you, 73
>>> j
>>>
>> Yes,  sort of....
>>
>>
>> On the digital side, this radio can send GPS position data to another
>> similar radio, and request position data from another radio. It does
>> this on-demand -- there is no auto-beaconing.   Note that this is GPS
>> position data -- but it is NOT APRS.
>>
>> On the analog FM side,it functions as a dumb (or should I say deaf)
>> transmit-only tracker.  it CAN send standard periodic automatic
>> APRS-format position beacons. There is NO receive capability for APRS.
>> This website describes how to set up APRS on the analog side of the
>> radio.  It even links to a page on my website for the APRS symbol
>> selection chart.
>>
>>    <https://www.m0pqa.com/2020/05/making-aprs-work-on-anytone-at-d878uv.html>
>>
>> Again, note that all it can do is SEND position beacons. It can not send
>> APRS messages, or receive anything APRS.
>>
>>
>> The radio is dual-band with dual receive; i.e. you can monitor U/V ,
>> V/V  or U/U. I have no idea how it would handle VHF APRS auto-beacons on
>> one side, if the other side is also on VHF.
>>
>>
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