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You can also open a map to see received stations plotted on Google Maps:

And that is all about connecting your APRS Voyager to APRSDroid. With APRSDroid you 

can also send and receive messages from other APRS users or use your smartphone's 
built-in GPS to make a SmartBeaconing tracker without additional external GPS receiver. 

Good luck in revealing other APRSDroid features.

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Summary of Contents for APRS Voyager

Page 1: ...ETOOTH INTERFACE SIMPLE ALIAS BASED APRS PACKET DIGIPEATER WEATHER STATION SUPPORT EXTERNAL TELEMETRY MODULE SUPPORT DIGITAL THERMOMETER SUPPORT INPUT VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT SERIAL CONSOLE FOR ADMINISTRA...

Page 2: ...ftware 12 8 1 Reading configuration from the device 12 8 2 Writing configuration to the device 12 8 3 Firmware update 12 8 4 Configuration import export 12 8 5 Radio Tab 13 8 6 Position reports Tab 14...

Page 3: ...95 max Electrical Supply voltage 12 14 VDC typ 14 4 VDC max Power consumption at 13VDC 5W 80 mA RX 1150 mA TX Power consumption at 13VDC 7W 80 mA RX 1380 mA TX RF transmitter receiver Antenna impedan...

Page 4: ...e accurate reporting especially in urban area SmartBeaconing algorithm was first developed by Tony Arnerich KD7TA and Steve Bragg KA9MVA and now it is widely used by most APRS tracker devices 2 3 Buil...

Page 5: ...o2 Plus with RS 232 datalogger 2 6 External telemetry module support You can use an additional telemetry module for reporting of voltages and electric current values of your installation This is espec...

Page 6: ...on fix three short blinks 0 1 second each per 1 6 seconds GPS NMEA sentence received with position fix one long blink 1 second per 1 6 seconds APRS packet was properly received Connectors SMA female 5...

Page 7: ...input of the device with allowed input voltage of around 12V to 14V with plus at center A source with current capacity of at least 2A should be used Other Bluetooth antenna installed outside aluminium...

Page 8: ...oyager to RS 485 A of the module and RS 485 B of APRS Voyager to RS 485 B of the module Both APRS Voyager and telemetry module must share the same ground potential should be powered from the same powe...

Page 9: ...100mA Pin 3 hard wired to negative voltage for WS 2300 WS 2350 weather station support Pin 5 RS 232 Port 2 RXD RS 232 Port 2 functions are selectable in software APRS Voyager incorporates only one RS...

Page 10: ...activate the data logger To connect Peet Bros Ultimeter station to APRS Voyager you will need to use CAB29B PLXTracker Blue TRX1W APRS Voyager serial interface cable for Davis PeetBros Schematic for t...

Page 11: ...follow these steps Disconnect APRS Voyager DB 9 cable device should be unpowered Connect the USB cable from your computer to APRS Voyager Red LED should start to blink device is now powered from USB N...

Page 12: ...t worry it is not possible to brick or damage the device with this operation If anything goes bad you will simply need to try again with firmware update function Please remember that you should update...

Page 13: ...re hundredths of seconds 1 100 D can be E for east or W for west You can easily find your coordinates in APRS format on aprs fi map they are displayed in upper left corner of the screen TX delay ms de...

Page 14: ...ency for both TX and TX Checked frequencies range from 144 to 146 MHz 8 6 Position reports Tab Position report mode selects position report mode SmartBeaconing algorithm which sends position reports w...

Page 15: ...ort packets Mic E uses both AX 25 destination address and information field for position report and is the most compact reporting method giving the shortest packet length Base 91 second method oriente...

Page 16: ...disables a function of RF APRS packets digipeating Duplicate checking s Time in seconds after which the next packet will be forwarded if it has the same content as the previous one This function allow...

Page 17: ...ID if packet path contains this string and SSID it will be digipeated Traceable if Yes APRS Voyager will add its own callsign to the path if No it will not do that Enable if Disables Never or enables...

Page 18: ...rate to RF expressed in minutes beacon will not be sent if this field is set to 0 Enable if beacon can be disabled Never enabled Always enabled only if device is receiving a valid position fix from GP...

Page 19: ...for example like that 100214z5221 60N 01653 63E PLXTracker U 12 1V Important note Sometimes I see that users try to replace special gpsdate gpslat gpslong volt strings with direct values You don t nee...

Page 20: ...metry data this group of fields defines settings telemetry data reports Dest destination field of a telemetry data packet Path APRS path default value of WIDE2 2 will allow your device to be digipeate...

Page 21: ...cs and measurements Coeff A Coeff B Coeff C these coefficients tell recipients of the telemetry reports how to decode analog value in following form value A data data B data C 1 min average only funct...

Page 22: ...sociated with WXBits module Inverted defines if channels should be reported as inverted in BITS telemetry message Default parameters you should click this button after you change data source for the c...

Page 23: ...8 10 Weather reports Tab This Tab contains all settings related to weather station reports If you are not going to use weather station you can leave it unchanged 23...

Page 24: ...atitude Longitude fields in Radio Tab Comment weather report comment 8 11 External interfaces Tab This Tab is related to settings of all external devices and interfaces which may be connected to APRS...

Page 25: ...device name Bluetooth name which will be displayed on your laptop smartphone tablet when searching for nearby Bluetooth devices Bluetooth password Bluetooth password which needs to be entered while pa...

Page 26: ...rt RS 485 port selects between telemetry modules or digital thermometer connected to RS 485 bus WXTelemetry module analog enables or disables WXTelemetry module support WXBits module digital enables o...

Page 27: ...8 11 4 External interfaces Weather station Weather station selection of weather station model connected to APRS Voyager serial port 8 11 5 External interfaces Serial console 27...

Page 28: ...rial console communication baudrate Console debug messages enables or disables various debug messages printed via serial console 8 11 6 External interfaces GPS receiver GPS module baudrate selection o...

Page 29: ...elects KISS direction RF serial only output of packets received from RF both output of packets received from RF and forwading of packets from serial port to RF Check for serial RF packet correctness i...

Page 30: ...natively it will send a constant test pattern with 50 duty cycle in 20 seconds interval 10 seconds on 10 seconds off Test tone enable enables or disables test tone generation Test tone pattern sends t...

Page 31: ...alaxy Grand Neo GT i9060 hosting Android Kitkat 4 4 4 After running APRSDroid we need to get into application preferences To do it we need to press on three dots in upper right corner of the screen On...

Page 32: ...g After making a selection you will get back to Preferences menu Now click on Bluetooth settings option Enable Bluetooth if necessary and you should see a list of available Bluetooth devices With APRS...

Page 33: ...see the device as paired Now get back to Preferences press on Connection Preferences and then on TNC Bluetooth device to select your paired device as preferred Bluetooth TNC again you will see APRSVoy...

Page 34: ...he menu and get back to the main window of APRSDroid application Press on Start Tracking and you should get a confirmation that connection was opened correctly After some time you should start to see...

Page 35: ...about connecting your APRS Voyager to APRSDroid With APRSDroid you can also send and receive messages from other APRS users or use your smartphone s built in GPS to make a SmartBeaconing tracker with...

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