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Minimal APRS Digi/IGate Setup	Reply
by W0ZC on August 30, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
I'm wanting to get a digi/IGate on the air (yes I'm in an under-served area, and yes, I may QSY it for short periods of time to help specific balloon launches). What recommendations would people have for a minimalistic approach to this? By minimalistic, I mean that I won't have a full blown PC running 24x7x365 just to gate some 1200 baud traffic to a telnet session. I would think someone would have a single-board computer or microcontroller that could handle this task cheaply and efficiently. Also, are there any specific requirements or recommendations for a TNC in this environment?

RE: Minimal APRS Digi/IGate Setup	Reply
by WW5AA on August 31, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
I run an old AEA PK232 that I paid $50 for on Ebay. Depending on the software any 486 and up computer will run UI-View32. Hope to see you on! If you need help, my Email is good on QRZ. 73 de Lindy

RE: Minimal APRS Digi/IGate Setup	Reply
by W0ZC on September 1, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
My hope is to not have to run a full PC - even a fairly simple 50-100W PC seems WAY overkill compared to what some of these Single Board Computers (SBC's) can do (~2-5W). Besides, then I'd have to worry about the stability of Windows and a PC program in user space.

RE: Minimal APRS Digi/IGate Setup	Reply
by 9W2TPT on September 2, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Take a look at APRS4R project: http://www.aprs4r.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/WikiStart I've no idea if it could do a telnet session, but it could produce an XML file and surely, it could gate your packet out to APRS-IS servers too. I've run on this setup for a couple of months now.

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