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UI-Vew Setup

Take a look at The APRS Guidelines

APRS Satellites

Latest APRS Satellite Status

• ISS

  The International Space Station is currently running a 1200 Baud digipeater which can be used to relay your APRS position beacon. If you set your unproto to the following APRS,ARISS and tune your radio to TX/RX 145.825 Mhz when in range you should be able to access the digipeater

  Note: PCSAT and ANDE are also on this frequency

Meteor Mode and DX

UI-View supports the concept of 'Meteor Mode' which is simply making the shortest packet transmission possible (The lesser the packet tones, the lesser the possible errors) to convery a location. This will generally get your beacon further than a normal latitude/longitude beacon. To set-up Meteor Mode

UI-View on a LAN

Setting up UI-View on a LAN

Linux

As I'm not a regular Linux user myself. The following information I have either been e-mailed (WK0C) or read on yahoogroups Linux using two different compatibility schemes. First is Win4Lin by Netraverse Software. Works flawlessly but requires a native Windows installation to be present on the box...not ideal.

The second scheme is using a program called CrossOver by Codeweavers (www.codeweavers.com). CrossOver is a big improvement on the WINE windows compatibility layer for Linux...no Windows installation is required at all. UI-View has been added to CodeWeavers Linux compatibility database.

UI-View & FlexNet

Flexnet can now be used in HOST mode with UI-View32. You can also use it by setting the following options you can run UI-View over a TCP/IP ax25 APRS Compatibility

1. Tick default APRS messages APRS Compatibility
2. Tick no UI-View extentions APRS Server Setup
3. Setup your TCP/IP local server (for example iw2fer.2.it.ampr.org:10151)
4. Then use Action -> Connect to APRS Server (this will then connect via TCP/IP over ax25 if you have your Flexnet setup correctly

APRS Satellite Resources

• Amsat Weekly News
• Article About PCSAT
• PCSAT Telemetry Decoder
• Satellite Tracking Software

UI-View on HF

The following links take you to sections of an article written by Jim G0JXN on using UI-View on HF

• Introduction
• Frequency Setting
• Baud Rate
• Distances
• Frequencies to use
• BeaconNet
• Increasing Success
• SSID
• Beacon Interval
• Messages
• Digipeater

For those without an appropriate TNC might like to try AGW which will Tx/Rx 300Baud packet via a soundcard Download