<div dir="auto"><div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lloyd KO4L </div></div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">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!”</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 10, 2024, 9:31 PM Keith Sproul via aprssig <<a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello All<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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What dual band mobile radio is the BEST for using with a laptop running APRS?<br>
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I am willing to buy a new radio, but I am having a hard time figure out what to buy.<br>
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Keith Sproul, WU2Z<br>
<a href="mailto:wu2z@skychariot.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">wu2z@skychariot.com</a><br>
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