See what APRS in Utah County looks like today. This is a view of exactly what the KD7LRJ I-Gate computer sees. The view is updated approximately every 10 minutes. The map also changes from time to time and may show all of Utah, the Western US or just a small area where something is interesting, so check back once in a while. If you want to see a specific area for a while, let me know – it can be changed very easily. More…

The KD7LRJ APRS digipeater is located in Lindon near the mouth of Dry Canyon about 400 feet above the valley floor. Due to local terrain, the machine can’t hear East Orem or Provo very well, but does have a direct shot to other digipeaters in the area including Skyline Drive, Scott’s Hill, Heber City, Point of the Mountain, Shepard Peak, The University of Utah, and at times even Mt. Harrison in Southern Idaho.

As an I-Gate, the machine passes traffic it hears on the APRS frequency (144.39) to the Internet APRS Stream and makes it available for such services as FIND-U and others.

Although it won’t repeat packets addressed to the APRS alias of “WIDE”, it listens to all of the WIDE’s that it can hear (quite a few) and should help keep APRS from most of northern Utah on the internet if other I-Gates go down (hey, it happens).

If you’re interested in APRS and need to find out how to get started, catch me (KD7LRJ – Doug McKay) at an ARES interface meeting or on the air (147.34 repeater) sometime. Email to kd7lrj@ucares.org works too.