<div dir="auto">Not to mention...it is a 2-way service...so you can send messages *to* APRS radios from your cell phone also!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I did play with this a bit early on, but having an Aprs client app on my phone I tend to use that more for messaging.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The big advantage of course is using this gateway in marginal areas you are a lot more likely to get a message through using text where you might not have data.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Eric K9LGE</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 7, 2019, 12:16 PM Robert Bruninga <<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I hope everyone is aware of the powerful emergency communications capabililty provided by Paul Dufresne, VE3OTB's SMSGateway: <a href="https://smsgte.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://smsgte.org/</a><br><br></div><div>This lets you send and receive texts with any other cellphone user seamlessly when all you have is an APRS radio. Its not needed when you are cellphone coverage, but when you have no coverage and have your APRS raido, you can still text!<br><br></div><div>Bob, WB4APR<br></div></div>
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