APRS in Gardners

I had my UV-PRO and APRSDroid running at Mountain Creek in Gardners, PA, using a normal telescoping antenna. The APRS traffic I observed looked pretty familiar to what I typically see around home, with a wide range of activity and some of the same digipeaters.

UV-Pro Firmware

I’ve been learning about the BTech UV-Pro. When scannimg, it degrades the incoming APRS, even in digital mode where it checks back to the APRS channel frequently. I’ve been using stock APRSdroid over the TNC connection, but it takes a little fiddling sometimes to get it to connect.

In the new firmware, they’ve been flip-flopping features between 8.2.x and 8.3. It has bold/yellow fonts (or not), and new button actions to access groups. NOAA alerts have also come and gone to see if they affect RX performance overall.

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