Thursday, August 7, 2025

aprs.fi iPhone app: New user guide and other features

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A few updates have been released for the aprs.fi app recently, and I haven't been posting about them. It's about time! Version 2.7....
Thursday, June 29, 2023

CG Antenna GW-1000 APRS iGate has serious bugs

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The CG Antenna GW-1000 APRS iGate gateway appliance contains faulty firmware which causes severe problems to APRS messaging worldwide.  The ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Radiosonde iGates are quite a mess, and they seriously need some fixing

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UPDATE: The radiosonde data feeds have almost completely been moved to  sondehub.org  and the APRS-IS is no longer involved or affected by i...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

Baofeng & BTech APRS-K1 & iPhone problems

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TL;DR: It seems like many Baofeng radio units (UV-5R, UV-82, etc) do not work with the aprs.fi iPhone app using the BTech APRS-K1 cable. The...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Manual stopping of the aprs.fi iPhone app is unnecessary

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Quite often someone says the aprs.fi app is starting up with the map showing Helsinki instead of the previous map view and position, and req...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

aprs.fi iPhone / iPad 2.0 with Messaging, APRS-IS TX and DSP modem

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Version 2.0 of the aprs.fi iPhone & iPad app is now out! A new major version is well deserved, since it comes with the following new maj...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

aprs.fi supports Kenneth's Proposed Telemetry Format

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Telemetry is the collection of measurements or other data at remote or inaccessible points and their automatic transmission to receiving e...