I often work where cell coverage doesn't exist. My wife got her ham license so she can reach when during the day. This requires us both listening to whatever traffic is on the repeater for hours all day long.
I've never been interested in APRS but I recently learned you can send messages thru it.
I've discovered the Mobilinkd TNC that connects with bluetooth to a mobile phone. It seems like this TNC would allow us to send text messages to each other over the APRS digi network.
If I have one of these TNC's attached to each of our mobile radios and the radios set to 144.39 should we be able to send messages this way?
I'm not interested in GPS or location reporting. I really don't want to have to buy fancy new APRS specific radios either.
I'm anxious to learn about this mode and what it can do but I have no background on it at all.
Thanks,
I've never been interested in APRS but I recently learned you can send messages thru it.
I've discovered the Mobilinkd TNC that connects with bluetooth to a mobile phone. It seems like this TNC would allow us to send text messages to each other over the APRS digi network.
If I have one of these TNC's attached to each of our mobile radios and the radios set to 144.39 should we be able to send messages this way?
I'm not interested in GPS or location reporting. I really don't want to have to buy fancy new APRS specific radios either.
I'm anxious to learn about this mode and what it can do but I have no background on it at all.
Thanks,