Packet radio has great potential for passing large pieces of message traffic from one station to another. However, with the internet growing by leaps and bounds a lot of folks, including myself, seem to become disenchanted with packet. Then I discovered APRS! (Of course some of us discovered APRS before then but I digress…). It was always difficult to apply packet to real time events. Especially since these events seem to always be short lived. APRS can avoid this problem. It is not limited to a connected network or its complexity. APRS permits any number of stations to exchange data just like voice users do on a voice net. Any user can send information and all stations receive it or transmitted it. Secondly, APRS recognized one of the greatest real-time needs of any special event or emergency. That is tracking of key assets! For instance… Where is the event leader? Where are the emergency vehicles? What is the weather at various points in the country? Where is a mobile\base amateur station? Where is the hurricane? Where is my car  now
(if stolen) ?? WHERE IS THE DX?  To answer these questions, APRS is a full featured automatic vehicle location and status reporting system too. All this is happening here in Australia on the new allocated APRS frequency 145.175MHz.

PS: I am  new at learning the APRS.
This is great for the Travelnet Australia HF-VHF

So if you have a normal Packet Radio Modem then you can monitor the APRS traffic flow (Packet) activity.

Im running now fulltime a APRS Digipeater with connection to the Internet (IGATE)
Frequency here 145.175MHz. There is already a few stations around in Australia.

See the APRS Activity Page Queensland  Double click this line !!
Also see the other links  below...

What I'd like to see is links to APRS Australia wide, if you need more information about Software or Setup please call me on the Voice frequency 145.400MHz simplex

Page Updated: 13-12-2001

73 all cul de Art (VK4GO)
Gold-Coast

Link to: VK4GO APRS Activity Page 
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Link to: VK4GO-9 APRS Portable Photo Page
Link to: VK4GO APRS-Link Page
Link to: UI-View APRS Download Page

Bob Bruninga (WB4APR) Mark Sproul (KB2ICI)  Keith Sproul (WU2Z)
Steve Dimse (K4HG)  Brent Hildebrand (KH2Z)   Richard Parry (W9IF)
Mike Musick (N0QBF)   Frank Giannandrea (KC0DGE)
Dale Heatherington (WA4DSY)
Roger Barker(Ui-View)(G4IDE)

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