Yaesu FT-1d to sending Spot via APRS, Good?

[OE5REO]

hi marco,

APRS2SOTA has become my first choice for selfspotting! i love the idea of not having to use the mobile phone and totally rely on my ham radio equipment. but you should keep in mind that an i-gate needs to be in reach to relay your message to the internet. for my hikes with poor aprs coverage i built myself a portable i-gate … see more info here:

Portable SOTA APRS I-Gate

I just wanted to let you all know about my recent project regarding SOTA and APRS. As some of you may know I use APRS a lot, also on my SOTA activations. Due to the mountainous topography in my area there are quite a lot spots where it is almost impossible to get a packet out into the APRS-Network. So I decided to build myself a portable APRS I-Gate that is listening for my (and other) APRS-Packets in my car during my hikes … so I got myself a Raspberry Pi 3. As I was not familiar with RPi and …

i use a kenwood th-d72 for aprs. i have two previous sent messages stored (one for hf, one for vhf) as some kind of a template and edit it. if you have a tx i-gate in reach you instantly get a confirmation message that you have been spotted.

73 martin, oe5reo