Comment:	LoRa APRS for Balloons
Last status:	https://github.com/richonguzman/LoRa_APRS_iGate 2025.01.22
Location:	50°49.77' N 5°45.72' E - locator JO20VT19KB - show map 1.5 miles Southeast bearing 114° from Heer, Gemeente Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands [?] 2.4 miles Southwest bearing 203° from Berg, Valkenburg aan de Geul, Limburg, Netherlands 52.2 miles West bearing 263° from Köln (Koeln), Regierungsbezirk Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 61.6 miles East bearing 91° from Brussels, (Bruxelles-Capitale), Brussels Capital Region, Belgium
Last position:	2025-02-01 22:28:32 EST (14m56s ago) 2025-02-02 04:28:32 CET local time at Heer, Netherlands [?]
Device:	Ricardo, CA2RXU: ESP32 LoRa iGate (igate)
Last path:	PA3CPF-10>APLRG1 via TCPIP*,qAC,T2SPAIN2
Positions stored:	1
Packet rate:	900 seconds between packets on average during 44103 seconds.
Other SSIDs:	PA3CPF-6 PA3CPF-5 PA3CPF-4
APRS igate – Statistics for 2025-02:
Stations heard directly:	3 on radio path – show map
Last heard a station directly:	2025-02-01 09:04:58 EST (13h38m ago)
Position packets heard directly:	3 on radio path
Position packets sent to APRS-IS:	3 – show map

callsign		distance	last heard - EST		callsign		distance	last heard - EST
PB1SAM-5		3.2 miles 227°	2025-01-23 15:28:00		PB1SAM-11		3.2 miles 227°	2025-01-17 16:28:05
EL-PB1SAM		3.2 miles 226°	2025-02-01 22:38:31		P-PB1SAM		3.2 miles 226°	2025-02-01 22:00:21
PB1SAM-10		3.2 miles 227°	2025-02-01 22:31:56		PB1SAM-7		3.3 miles 227°	2025-02-01 14:57:24
PA/PA-003		3.4 miles 251°	2025-02-01 15:43:13		EL-PE2KMV		4.3 miles 52°	2025-02-01 22:38:26
PE2KMV-7		4.3 miles 52°	2025-01-29 10:18:22		PE2KMV		4.3 miles 52°	2025-01-20 13:20:43
PA3GDS		4.4 miles 293°	2025-02-01 22:38:38		438.150zl		4.9 miles 282°	2025-01-16 04:11:50
BMCB-13		5.0 miles 243°	2025-02-01 22:30:25		PA3GDS-7		5.0 miles 294°	2025-01-29 11:11:31
EW5682		5.2 miles 266°	2025-02-01 22:40:24		PA3GDS-10		5.2 miles 299°	2025-02-01 22:39:23
ER-PI3ZLB		5.3 miles 45°	2025-02-01 22:37:39		145.725zl		5.3 miles 45°	2025-01-16 04:09:51
PA3CWV-10		5.6 miles 294°	2025-02-01 22:37:48		PA3CWV-9		5.6 miles 294°	2025-01-25 15:11:28

Only stations from which a position packet has been heard are shown here. The range statistics show some extra long hops, because some digipeaters do not correctly add themselves to the digipeater path. Please check the raw packets.

This page shows real-time information collected from the Automatic Position Reporting System Internet network (APRS-IS). APRS is used by amateur (ham) radio operators to transmit real-time position information, weather data, telemetry and messages over the radio. A vehicle equipped with a GPS receiver, a VHF transmitter or HF transceiver and a small computer device called a tracker transmits it's location, speed and course in a small data packet, which is then received by a nearby iGate receiving site which forwards the packet on the Internet. Systems connected to the Internet can send information on the APRS-IS without a radio transmitter, or collect and display information transmitted anywhere in the world.