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On 5/27/2024 3:40 PM, VE1PS wrote:

Any chance there might be a new url for the link suggested?

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As the post was from 9 years ago, guessing no longer valid.

73 Pete VE1PS

As far as installing UIview on recent versions of Windows, I have an entire page devoted to setting up UIview, including considerations for Win 7 through Win 11.? (UIview and Precision Mapping do work on Win 11).? Go to the page on my web site at:

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EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]
Home Page:

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On 5/27/2024 3:40 PM, VE1PS wrote:

Any chance there might be a new url for the link suggested?

will not open.

As the post was from 9 years ago, guessing no longer valid.

73 Pete VE1PS

The F5VAG site seems to be mostly defunct.? For years, I used his iframe drop-ins for mapping on the UIview UI-Webserver.? About the time Google imposed new and far more onerous (and expensive) terms for use of Google Maps a few years ago, most of the F5VAG site disappeared.

(It is these changed terms of use at Google that caused APRS.fi to start using Open Streets instead of Google Maps. Which of course also did away with the Street View option at APRS.fi. And why findu.com is now hopelessly broken. )

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Stephen H. Smith??? wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Skype:??????? WA8LMF
EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]
Home Page:

APRS-over-VARA igates now operating on 30 & 60 meters
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"Studio B" Ham Shack on Wheels
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-- APRS over VARA? --
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Any chance there might be a new url for the link suggested?

will not open.

As the post was from 9 years ago, guessing no longer valid.

73 Pete VE1PS

I can't seem to get old line tracks to delete manually...

I will be exhibiting "Studio B" (my mobile Hamshack on wheels - uEOC - Radio test lab - and QRP AM stereo/ FM stereo broadcast station) at the *Dayton Hamvention* _Emergency Comms Vehicles Expo_ again this year.? "Studio B" is a 12-foot Aliner folding A-frame camper packed with radios and electronic gadgets.? Details here:

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I will be demonstrating ? APRS-over-VARA using multiple copies of UIview and?? VarAC Chat (keyboard-to-keyboard live chat client and file-transfer tool). Both run on top of the VARA high-performance HF soft modem.

I will be beaconing the location? of the Emcomms Vehicle Expo as an APRS object on normal VHF AX.25 APRS,? and into the APRS Internet system Thursday, Friday and Saturday.? Currently, you can view the Hamvention-area map on my APRS special event web server at:

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Be sure to click the link for "Close-Up View of Event".

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Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Skype:??????? WA8LMF
EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]
Home Page:

30 & 60 meter NVIS? APRS-over-VARA? at Dayton Hamvention

APRS-over-VARA igates now operating on 30 & 60 meters
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Thanks for the reply, Jeff,
I remember making my own maps back in the day when helping Roger to develop the program, but I didn't save them off the PC disk that I was using back then, so they are lost.
I also need to try to find out what my APRS Server Validation number was.
Cheers - Dave (G0DJA)

Hi Dave
I would recommend the software created by PA7RHM which allows maps to be generated from the internet. However the links on his website don’t seem to be working at the moment:

Perhaps they can be found elsewhere.

Otherwise it is up to you to find suitable maps and enter the co-ordinates of the 2 corners yourself into the .inf files
One thing to be aware of it UI expects maps to the Square wrt to Lat and Long, which is not the case if you use maps downloaded from OS Open Data. They are square wrt the National Grid which is not aligned to Lat/long.

73
Jeff g8HUL

Hi all,
I've recently returned to APRS after a break of a number of years. I've got UI-View32 working with my Icom IC-9700 and it is transmitting and I'm hearing a couple of stations. One a mobilte and the other a digipeater, MB7UWR, but I can't find maps to instal to UI-View32 other than the default ones.

Can someone point me towards a database of UK maps, or let me know of a way to create my own please? I remember that, years ago, I made up my own map set using maps on a DVD, but I guess that's be superceded by now?

Thanks - Dave (G0DJA)

I have received several replies on various lists commenting how there seem to be no DETAILED online maps showing the track of the? 8 April 2024 solar eclipse.

I've been totally amazed by the same thing - lack of detailed info.? Nothing from places like NASA, National Solar Observatory, etc that you would think would have the high-powered graphics to do this.

Here is the ONE dynamic map I've been able to find that can scroll in for a detailed view of the eclipse path.

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This is based on a zoomable Google map - scroll in to get the usual Google Maps detail anywhere in the US.

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The next road trip and APRS AX.25-vs-VARA test opportunity will be on April 8th.?? I am driving down to north-west Ohio for the total solar eclipse.? I will be parked just off Ohio I-75 near Celina Ohio, right on the center of the line of totality.? Coords are 40.4964N / 84.1926W.

I will be taking the radio trailer "Studio B" <> , ? and will be experimenting with HF propagation changes during the eclipse.? I will be beaconing AX.25 and VARA APRS on both 30 and 60 meters, and monitoring signal levels on the AM broadcast band. Possibly some SSTV livecam shots of the eclipse, if the upper HF bands (15 and 10 meters) are open -- 20 meters is just too much of a mess on SSTV.

I intend to arrive on site about 12:00 Noon local (US EST / UTC -4) for setup.? At this location, the eclipse starts at about 13:54 EST and will be total by 15:09 EST.


Green diagonal line is the track of the eclipse.

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Stephen H. Smith??? wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Skype:??????? WA8LMF
EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]
Home Page:


APRS-over-VARA igates now operating on 30 & 60 meters
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*"Studio B" Ham Shack on Wheels
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I will be conducting another comparison of VARA vs AX.25 for APRS on 60 meters on Saturday 10 Feb 2024. This will be on the drive up to Traverse City and back,? for the Traverse City "Cherryland ARC" Swap-N-Shop event.

As in previous tests, I will be transmitting APRS position reports alternately with classic 300 baud HF AX.25 packet and with VARA-HF.?? Two copies of the UIview APRS program will be running, one for each mode, into the same soundcard, interface, Yaesu FT-891 transceiver, and same Quicksilver Radio 60-meter Hamstick-type mobile whip.

The trip up will be at night - I have to depart Haslett, Michigan at about 3:30 AM to arrive at the event in Traverse City by 7:00 AM to setup.? The return trip will start in the early afternoon. The propagation characteristics of 60 meters are sharply different night and day. Nighttime tends toward long-haul (300-600 miles/ 480-1000 km) propagation, while daytime favors short-haul NVIS coverage (0-250 miles / 0-400 km) or so.

My home station, which is now running dual AX.25 and VARA mode igates? 24/7? on both 30 and 60 meters will be receiving these tests and passing anything heard to the APRS Internet system.? To distinguish the AX.25 reports from the VARA reports,? the AX.25 transmissions will use WA8LMF-2, while the VARA beacons will use WA8LMF-3.?? I.e:

<> will show what is heard on AX.25 packet
<> will show what is heard on VARA

Both modes will be sending APRS compressed-format posits.

My own APRS real-time tracking maps, generated by my own UI-Webservers, are visible at:

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If anyone actually wants to get? up at the ungodly hour of 3:30 AM (local US EST) to monitor, or even try to send a beacon or APRS message to my mobile enroute, so much the better!

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Skype:??????? WA8LMF
EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]
Home Page:


*NEW*? WA8LMF Road Trip Tracker
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"Studio B" Ham Shack on Wheels
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Hi everyone, this is my first post here. I am currently using UI-View32 + Windows XP + Nvidia Soundcard + home made audio interface (with 2 audio transformers and an optocoupler) + AGWPE software + ADI VHF base transceiver at low power + home made power supply + RG213 coax + slim jim antenna.
When I send a beacon (by pressing F9) I can see the VHF transceiver going into TX (as there are visual indicators on the rig), audio from UI-VIEW32 is transmitted as it is received 5 kilometers away by another guy (Ricky), however there is some problem and I bet it is that the PTT disconnects before the audio finishes and something else. I can see at 02:04 in this video () this ham's audio that looks like FM, mine looks more like some bad AM (). The result is that on Ricky's place his UI-VIEW32 does not decode any of this beacons. Furthermore I've tried to decode the beacons using another computer (also with Windows XP) and I had the same result (but as it was on the same location of the TX I though that can be a problem). After all that I installed the software in yet another computer (this one running Windows 7) to be the TX station and nothing changed or improved (but I cannot deduct the PC is not the problem as maybe I am doing some insufficient configuration of UI-View32 and/or AGWPE).

Many thanks

73's

Marcelo
LW3EOV
M6BGG

On 1/22/2024 4:50 PM, wa5luy wrote:

Stephen,
When you say "I am using a stack of components from "VSPE" (Virtual Serial Ports Emulator) to create a serial-to-TCPIP bridge to connect the serial-only KISS output of UIview to the network (TCP/IP) KISS connection provided in the VARA soft-modem."
I am confused. Does that mean you are using UIview, the VSPE software program, and VARA only or is there something in addition.
I am interested in trying APRS with VARA and UIview but I am not a real software proficient person.
If you could provide or publish some instructions on how to set this up it would really be appreciated
Wayne
WA5LUY

"VSPE" (Virtual Serial Ports Emulator) is an incredibly versatile tool for dealing with serial ports.? The program is available in separate versions for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems

It can split one incoming physical (or virtual) serial port into multiple virtual serial outputs. For example,? a GPS receiver connected to the input serial port can be shared with multiple applications at the same time. I have had the UIview APRS program, the PinPoint APRS program, Microsoft MapPoint, Precision Mapping, and Delorme Topo North America all using one GPS at the same time. Uniquely among serial port utilities, it can output the SAME com number to multiple apps at the same time!?? In my GPS setup, the hardware GPS input is on COM4.. ALL the using apps are connecting to COM5 - you don't have to assign (and remember) a different COM number to each program.

It can create virtual null modems - two virtual COM ports connected back-to-back. I use this to feed a GPS emulator program outputting to a COM port into an APRS application using a differently-numbered COM port for testing and experimentation without a real GPS device present.
???? In the past, one would have used two physical COM ports on the machine with a cross-over null-modem cable interconnecting them. Now you can do this with just "smoke, mirrors and software".

It can do all manner of? serial-to-IP and IP-to-serial conversions. I use this in my "Studio B" radio trailer to take the virtual serial output of a GPS receiver and share it with 3 apps at the same time on a laptop.? And then, at the same time, share the GPS data with a second computer in the trailer using serial-to-IP and IP-to-serial over WiFi.

It can create a monitor "tap" of an existing serial connection to analyze the data flow between the existing serial ports.

Once configured, you can save multiple configurations into a .VSPE file (actually an XML file ) that can then launch VSPE setups in one click (or be launched by batch files or the Windows Startup group).?? You can trial-and-error change configurations on-the-fly without having to shut down VSPE or reboot the computer.

The program seems to be "bullet-proof" and "just works".? In over a year of using this complex driver-like program, I have NEVER had it lockup or crash!


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Stephen H. Smith??? wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Skype:??????? WA8LMF
EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]
Home Page:


APRS-over-VARA igates now operating on 30 & 60 meters
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"Studio B" Ham Shack on Wheels
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-- APRS over VARA? --
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Flying Digipeater!
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Well, I just found the instructions after making the post so disregard my question'

Wayne

Stephen,
When you say "I am using a stack of components from "VSPE" (Virtual Serial Ports Emulator) to create a serial-to-TCPIP bridge to connect the serial-only KISS output of UIview to the network (TCP/IP) KISS connection provided in the VARA soft-modem."
I am confused. Does that mean you are using UIview, the VSPE software program, and VARA only or is there something in addition.
I am interested in trying APRS with VARA and UIview but I am not a real software proficient person.
If you could provide or publish some instructions on how to set this up it would really be appreciated
Wayne
WA5LUY

On 1/7/2024 9:00 PM, AB0DK Dave Krueger wrote:

Does anyone have a link to UIVIEW32 with USA map included?

Not sure what you mean by "built-in".?? Except for a few sample maps of the UK (where UIview was written) and a world map, all other maps are provided externally from other sources.

It's important to realize, as of 2024,? UIview has been a software "orphan" for 20 (!) years following the death of it's author in 2004.? From his death bed, he requested that the source code for UIview be destroyed. There will never be any repacks or updates of the main program. ? However, one can create maps from many sources for UIview.

For North American users, the no-brainer choice is to use Precision Mapping 9.0, along with the PMap Server 9 plug-in for UIview. This gives you a continuously scrollable view of all of North American (Canada and Mexico as well as the US) that can zoom down to street level. It is all stored on your local hard drive; i.e. no Internet access required.

Precision Mapping is no longer available for purchase (the publisher Undertow Software went bust a decade ago), but sources for download remain on the Internet.

For more info on configuring and updating UIview, see my web page at:

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Stephen H. Smith??? wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Skype:??????? WA8LMF
EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]
Home Page:


*/APRS-over-VARA igates now operating on 30 & 60 meters/*
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"Studio B" Ham Shack on Wheels
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-- APRS over VARA? --
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Flying Digipeater!
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Does anyone have a link to UIVIEW32 with USA map included?

Morning Kerry,

Just looked at your station and then at the replies you have been getting. You have some good suggestions to work with, but APRS unlike most amateur radio today is often misunderstood. APRS is not (primarily) designed to allow you to see yourself on a map, but rather to see what is around you. Since you are seeing a lot of digipeaters, I think you are running your station pretty well.

I also noticed you were gracious enough to provide a way to contact you in your “comment” field. Putting an email address there is daring though. The entire world will see it. Might try putting a “voice frequency” or repeater information you regularly monitor in that section of your posit.

About the WIDE2-2 thing, if you are familiar with the mode called PACKET you might recognize that as a PATH setting, where each digipeater will respond to an “alias” named WIDE and the following numbers just tell the digipeater how many times to “resend” your data. The numbers decrement each time your posit is repeated, until it is exhausted. Hopefully during its journey it is received by a station called an IGate which puts your data into the internet.

When I checked your data this morning I noticed you had not transmitted anything in about five hours. I hope your home station is not “down” as it should be transmitting on pace anbout every 30 minutes. 30 minutes is more than sufficient to keep your home “on the map”. Mobiles can transmit more frequently, but never so fast as to congest the single VHF channel we have. I personally never transmit any of my posits mobile or otherwise any faster than once every thirty minutes……but then again, I’m never trying to see myself on the map either. I usually know where I am, and if my home station moves….I’ve got bigger problems.

Anyway, hope this helps. Venture into APRS, but take some time to study the structure of the three networks interconnected here. Having the internet, cellphone and amateur RF all connected makes this part of amateur radio really interesting.

73’蝉

Kenny, or as my friends call me: KiloWatt

Some digipeater owners, including me (W2KB-15), have their digi's at their home location so having an additional home station with icon would serve no purpose. Some weather station icons, etc. serve as a home station as well.

!lat=40.75933&lng=-74.84667

---Ken W2KB

Hi All,

Also to monitor stations around your areas, check out aprs.fi and see what is happening with different stations, digis, mobiles, etc.