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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Are you asking for something like this?</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/aprsorg/aprs-deviceid">https://github.com/aprsorg/aprs-deviceid</a></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It exists and is the new repository
replacing Bob's old non-parseable ToCall list
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.aprs.org/aprs11/tocalls.txt">http://www.aprs.org/aprs11/tocalls.txt</a>) and adding additional
meta-data about the platforms.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE
for Windows Mobile and Win32 <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">PS. Here's what it has currently:</div>
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<p dir="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(31, 35, 40); font-family:
-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI",
"Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif,
"Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji";
font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2;
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white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Tocall index
(tocalls):</p>
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UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif,
"Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji";
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normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">tocall: The APRS
destination callsign allocated for an application</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">vendor:
Vendor / author string identifying either the person or
organisation producing the device or application.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">model:
Device or software model</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">class:
A device class identifier, referring to the class index</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">os:
Operating system identifier</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">features:
Feature flags indicating optional features implemented on
this device
<ul dir="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left:
2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">messaging: The device
is messaging capable</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">item-in-msg:
The device is capable of receiving APRS items in text
messages</li>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/17/2023 3:35 AM, Borja Marcos
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi,
I am new to the list, I hope this is the right place to discuss this issue. This is not a complete proposal, of course,
just a “weather balloon” ;)
As many members will be aware, there is an effort underway to use LoRa modulation on 433 MHz for
APRS. There are several open source projects which, as a plus, are based on dirt cheap and easy to obtain
hardware,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/richonguzman/LoRa_APRS_Tracker">https://github.com/richonguzman/LoRa_APRS_Tracker</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/dl9sau/TTGO-T-Beam-LoRa-APRS">https://github.com/dl9sau/TTGO-T-Beam-LoRa-APRS</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/lora-aprs/LoRa_APRS_iGate">https://github.com/lora-aprs/LoRa_APRS_iGate</a>
There is also one commercial product available, picoAPRS LoRa. It is more pricey, but, well, all of us know
that developing and supporting an actual product is hard.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.db1nto.de/index_en.php">http://www.db1nto.de/index_en.php</a>
All of it is a bit ad-hoc now with no agreed standards (as far as I know). While some of the developers have
agree informally to use APL?? device IDs for LoRa based equipment, not every developer is following that
rule,
As far as I know there are also other modems/phys used with APRS. For example VARA on HF.
I think it would be great to add some metadata to the databses used by the APRS mapping applications including,
as a minimum, a modem/phy identification (and frequency, which could be useful for HF) so that they can be
more useful to study/check certain kinds of APRS activity.
Right now, for example, there are dashboards relying just on APL??? device IDs.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lora.ham-radio-op.net/?center=43.3508,-3.0499&zoom=12">http://lora.ham-radio-op.net/?center=43.3508,-3.0499&zoom=12</a>
Another interesting possibility offered by a more flexible database model could be adding some metadata specific
to certain modems. As an example, LoRa chips can provide RSSI and SNR data which could prove valuable for
propagation/coverage studies.
What do you think?
73,
Borja Marcos / EA2EKH
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