[aprssig] Best Dual Band Mobile radio for APRS

[John Galvin]

I have a FTM-300 and using the data port to a DR-30 (Masters 
Communications) soundcard to the PC works just fine for APRS and 
Winlink. For just monitoring the RL-20 would be an economical soundcard. 
Just lacks all the bells and whistles of the DR series.

73, John N5TIM

On 5/10/2024 9:31 PM, Lloyd Mitchell KO4L wrote:
> 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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