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Old 02-28-2018, 04:56 PM   #1
KN4JPD
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Join Date: Feb 2018
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Default New Ham APRS Questions

Hello, I'm a new ham and also new to this forum. I got my Ham license mainly as a result of an upcoming road trip that my family is planning. We wanted to be able to communicate from vehicle to vehicle easily and without cell service.

I purchased a nice mobile rig and two Retevis (Chinese made) HT's for the trip.

Over the last week I have been looking at APRS and it interests me. Seems like a nice way to post our live location to friends at home to follow. In addition to other uses while on the road.

My mobile rig supports APRS, but it doesn't have dual receivers so it's a headache. I recently saw this video https://youtu.be/d9L_SV5Wpgo

From my thoughts I could use one of my spare Retevis radios to connect to an iphone to broadcast my GPS location on APRS. I'm hoping I can use a an old model iphone that I have that doesn't have cell service to broadcast the GPS location using the Retevis.

Does anyone else use APRS for a similar function while traveling? If anyone has experience with the method I'm thinking about using to broadcast my location, please share it with me.
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