[aprssig] Best Dual Band Mobile radio for APRS

[Lloyd Mitchell KO4L]

Hmm  I like the Kenwood TM V71a for Dual band with a Digirig sound card
(Digirig Lite is nice also) with a PC makes a great setup.

Lloyd KO4L

Isaiah 5:20 (NASB), which says: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good
evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who
substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”

On Fri, May 10, 2024, 9:31 PM Keith Sproul via aprssig <
aprssig at lists.tapr.org> wrote:

> Hello All
>
> I am Keith Sproul, WU2Z, one of the original authors of APRS (MacAPRS and
> WinAPRS).  I have not been doing much Ham Radio in recent years, but am no
> newly retired and getting back to using APRS.
>
> I have a Yaesu FTM-400XDR in my van, and it does fine transmitting my
> position to APRS. It also will send APRS data out to a serial port, but it
> is receive ONLY, at least as far as I can figure out.  And the data isn't
> formatted the way it should be for feeding into an APRS program. I can fix
> that in the program, because I can't figure out how to fix it in the radio.
>
> I am installing a PC running Linux in my van with a big screen. I will be
> running X-APRS (MacAPRS updated to run on Linux) on this. I don't need this
> to transmit since the FTM-400XDR already does that, but I want to be able
> to receive all of th local data and display it on the screen.
>
> What dual band mobile radio is the BEST for using with a laptop running
> APRS?
>
> I am willing to buy a new radio, but I am having a hard time figure out
> what to buy.
>
> Keith Sproul, WU2Z
> wu2z at skychariot.com
>
>
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