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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">>Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> RE: [aprssig] Standalone APRS on Rasberry Pi?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">> </span>Specifically, were you looking for an end-user application <span style="color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">> </span>(Xastir/YAAC), a telemetry-type application, a softTNC app <span style="color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">> </span>(DireWolf), or a mid-point infrastructure app like aprx?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The ground station for the OUTERNET Geostationary bird is a DIY Rasberry Pie that can bring down the OUTERNET feed to anywhere on earth with a small 1m dish antenna to any of their SIX geostationary birds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">They are thinking of providing an APRS Satellite downlink on their system. Remember, these are intended for anywhere on earth primarily without access to the internet or any other services. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">See <a href="http://aprs.org/outnet.html">http://aprs.org/outnet.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">So, it would be neat of also running on the same PIE was an APRS client that would draw a map of the APRS stream (or text files) of the APRS activity.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The raspberry pie may be fully loaded trying to parse the megabit downlink already, but maybe it has some cycles to also run APRS in the background?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Bob, WB4APR</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Robert Bruninga <<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>> <br>Date: 10/3/16 10:44 AM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a>> <br>Subject: [aprssig] Standalone APRS on Rasberry Pi? </p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Is there an APRS client that runs, stand-alone on a Rasberry Pi (that is remote and the internet is not available?)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Bob, WB4APR</p></div></div></body></html>