Posted in Radio Hacks Tagged APRS, gps, HF, high frequency, JS8Call, position, ... APRS was why I got into Ham radio..love it I think everyone should be using it. Report comment.

If you dabble in the ham radio hobby we’re sure you’ve heard of GPS position monitoring or tracking using APRS packet data commonly transmitting over the VHF ham band and FM modulated.

To do this, Bruninga stuffed a small electronics package into a football helmet consisting of a GPS receiver, an Amateur Radio transmitter and a radio modem. At the time, GPS receivers were quite ...