Sunday, May 24, 2009

APRS in a Linksys Router



From the Ham Radio at Maker Faire 2009 - APRS demo PART 3. Chris Kantarjiev, K6DBG demonstrates APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System) gear that he has collected, built and modified. This segement features a modified Linksys router (WRT54 series) and a small APRS tracking kit, "OpenTracker," produced by Argent Data Systems. (Video by NQ1R/ARRL. www.arrl.org)

Chris is running an APRS gateway on the Linksys router, taking the need for a computer out of the picture. It talks to the Linksys router over it's internal serial port. A TNC connection cable hangs out the back.

For more info see:
http://www.dimebank.com/cak/k6dbg/k6dbg_igate.html

1 comment:

  1. RustyJanuary 25, 2012 at 11:30 AM

    Alas, not ALL WRT54G's had serial ports. Version 1.0 hardware had none while the version 1.1 circuit boards had pads for the components (UART chip and whatnot) but they were unpopulated. I have one of each model in my HSMM-MESH.

    73 de Rusty/AE5AEis

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