<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>YAAC runs on a Raspberry Pi and has a webserver for this sort of thing (see an example on F5VAG's website, though he's not using a Pi for his webserver host). See the example at http://f5vag.nerim.net/yaacws (a subpage of http://f5vag.eu). Setup documentation at http://www.ka2ddo.org/ka2ddo/YAACdocs/config_transmit.html<div><br></div><div>Incidentally, why be restricted to a short range on WiFi? Get a Ubiquity Bullet and an omni antenna, restrict it to the WiFi channels in the ham bands, and you can legally cover a few miles with portable antennas on portable masts. My ARES/RACES group does this routinely for a multi-agency exercise in our area</div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu> <br>Date: 6/22/17 13:41 (GMT-05:00) <br>To: aprssig@tapr.org <br>Subject: Re: [aprssig] Quick APRS hardware survey (APRS Hotspot) <br><br>Does this already exist?<br><br>A Raspberry Pi WiFi hotspot connected to a local APRS radio. The Pi is a<br>server delivering WEB pages to everyone in 1000 feet showing the APRS<br>tactical situation that the radio is monitoring.<br><br>This is for ALL people in the field with hand held devices to be able to see<br>the tactical situation on their handheld device. No internet anywhere is<br>needed.<br><br>I am really impressed with what the OUTERNET people did. The difference is<br>that their "radio" montors the INMARSAT downlinks (anywhere on earth) and<br>serve up the content (which includes an APRS channel).<br>See http://aprs.org/outnet.html<br><br>The stock WiFi antenna is only good for a few hundred feet range, but<br>soldering on a 1.5" piece of wire as the WiFi antenna high and in the clear<br>easily got to 1000' radius. Enough to cover things like Dayton Hamvention<br>for example.<br><br>Bob, WB4APR<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: aprssig [mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org] On Behalf Of Scott Miller<br>Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 1:30 AM<br>To: aprssig@tapr.org<br>Subject: [aprssig] Quick APRS hardware survey<br><br>As some of you know, I haven't been very active in the ham world for the<br>last three years or so. That's mostly because a sideline project building<br>LED hula hoops (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn-AP8DP254)<br>really took off. We've moved to a larger shop, hired more people, and<br>acquired some cool new production equipment, but the<br>OpenTracker/Tracker3 line has been basically in maintenance mode.<br><br>The ADS-SR2 project, that started out as a dual-port successor to the<br>ADS-SR1 simplex repeater, is my main development focus now. It's snowballed<br>into a multi-function thing with simplex, cross-band, and duplex voice<br>repeater support, and I'm merging all of the major functions of the Tracker3<br>into it. It has a full-fledged BASIC interpreter with a high-level command<br>for manipulating voice traffic and APRS packet and support for Modbus RTU<br>(and yes, I'll probably add<br>1-wire) for sensors and relays. I've got a partially-working Echolink client<br>running on it. It has Wi-Fi support and is web configurable, does IGating,<br>has a telnet server and client, and can work in access point mode so you<br>could use your mobile phone to access your VHF-connected mobile hotspot and<br>do APRS text messaging, and maybe even gate mail from a standard mobile<br>email client through Winlink eventually.<br><br>I keep growing in different directions with it, but I really need to nail<br>down specs for a hardware version or two and the initial software release.<br>I'm curious what everyone's most interested in. The full-size Tracker3, the<br>OT3m, has really slacked off in sales. The embeddable T3-Mini sells<br>considerably more. I think the market for a device like the T3 without<br>network connectivity is pretty well saturated already.<br>There's a lot to be done in the network-connected device arena, and there<br>could be a much smaller version, potentially with a built-in 1-watt<br>transceiver.<br><br>What would *you* be most interested in, in terms of new embedded APRS<br>hardware? What do you want to accomplish that's too much hassle or expense<br>with the existing options?<br><br>73,<br><br>Scott<br>N1VG<br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br>aprssig@tapr.org<br>http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig<br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br>aprssig@tapr.org<br>http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig<br></body></html>