Updated 2011-12-14: Still flying, igates needed further west! An APRS-equipped high-altitude balloon, using the callsign K6RPT-11 ( track ...

Yesterday afternoon aprs.fi made a new record: there were well over 3000 users viewing the real-time map at the same time. Almost all of th...

Silja Europa (live position) , a rather large passenger ferry ( photos ), has some steering issues, and is currently doing circles near Ålan...

Quick recap: A cargo vessel called Arctic Sea (MMSI 215860000) was probably hijacked on July 24th 2009 near the eastern coast of Sweden. Th...

Seems like we hit a new high of over 1000 simultaneous map viewers today, mostly thanks to Dayton Hamfest, and a popular live Hamfest video...

Dayton Hamvention is here again on next weekend. I've set up a separate page showing live APRS activity at Hamvention . Bob Bruninga is...

It's the last day of the summer camp of the Finnish Amateur Radio League (SRAL) , and the guys there just launched a balloon with an Op...

Here's my Kawasaki ZZR1200 motorcycle, equipped with an OpenTracker 1+ and a Puxing PX-777 handheld radio. I installed the APRS tracke...

Only a moment's consideration will reveal the amazing possibilities for our aviation community. Sam (KJ4CKK) has installed a Byonics Mic...

ABC studios, an Australian company called Hoodlum and the creators of the TV series Lost have created an alternative reality game called Fi...

Thanks to www.aboais.net , we now have an AIS feed from Turku, showing the busy traffic of the Archipelago of Finland (Saaristomeri) . Thank...

Kris (KI6IUC) reports that they'll have APRS tracking in their rally car while driving the Prescott Rally in Prescott, AZ, USA on Fr...

This morning I added dew point calculation to the weather pages and temperature graphs. It was really easy. I used the Magnus approximation...

Mark, N4CMB reports in a blog comment that members of the North Texas Balloon Project are launching flight 15 on Saturday, September 1, ...

Thanks to Ian, VK2HIM we now have AIS tracking data from the coast south of Sydney, Australia !

Mike OE3MZC , who happens to be the president of the Austrian Amateur Radio Society, is staying in Namibia as V51/OE3MZC, and driving around...

APRS trackers have been installed in a bunch of gliders (or sailplanes) in Sweden. They seem to fly around Eskilstuna , and belong to Eskil...

AIS, or Automatic Identification System is not much unlike APRS - it is a professional tracking system for ships. It runs at 9600 bit/s (GM...

There are groups of hams flying weather balloons stuffed with APRS trackers, digital cameras, repeaters and linear transponders, and other ...