As you may already know our community have some nifty APRS features. Below you will find some hints on how you can use it!

APRS Map

Beside the APRS Map on each members profile there is a generally useable APRS Map existing. You can search for a callsign location of your choice. If you enter a callsign without a SSID the search mechanism will search for SSID 0-15 and returns the first result found. If you search for a callsign with SSID it will display the location only if the exact callsign is found.

APRS Messenger

Another useful function is the APRS messenger. You can send APRS messages to your befriend OM's right away from socialhams website. You just have to enter the destination callsign and your message - the APRS messenger will to the rest for you! Your message gets send per APRS-IS gateway and the routing to the entered destination is done automatically by the APRS protocol. As little extra to the messenger feature you are able to update your socialhams profile status with a simple APRS message addressed to SOCIALH directly from your amateur radio or any other device that supports APRS messaging. Our messenger also supports message acknowlegment and rejecting.

APRS tracks export

You can easily export your APRS tracks to KML or GPX files. The interface should be self explaining.

APRS2MAIL Gateway

You as socialhams member are able now to send emails with your APRS enabled device. Just send a APRS message with the destination SOCIALH and receivers_email:your_message as message content. Everything else is done by the gateway automatically. The ":" is important because it acts as a delimiter between each part.

The email will look as follows:

From: gateway@socialhams.net
To: YOUR ENTERED EMAIL ADDRESS
Subject: Your message from SRCCALLSIGN

YOUR ENTERED MESSAGE

This email was sent by APRS2MAIL gateway of www.socialhams.net

MAIL2APRS Gateway

As we have APRS2MAIL, we also support the other way around. You can send APRS messages even if you have no APRS enabled device in reach. Sending an email message to gateway@socialhams.net with SRCCALLSIGN:message:DESTINATION as subject will do the trick. The ":" is important because it acts as a delimiter between each part.

Have fun testing all this stuff and dont hesitate to contact me on problems or other feedback!

vy 73 de Andreas