Subj : Setting-up APRS Digipeater on Sync server
To   : All
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Sat Jul 05 2025 11:42:34

Hi all -

This weekend (three day weekend) my wife and kids are out of town, so I was looking for some nerd projects to work on.  Decided to setup a Sync board (first time in years) and also setup an APRS Digipeater and iGate on the same box.

I grabbed an old Intel Mac Mini and installed Xubuntu 24.04 and compiled latest build of Sync yesterday, it's setup but I'm still unsure on a name plus still need to customize it.  Just spending today fine tuning.

For APRS, I'm using Direwolf, the audio cable will be in tomorrow, and I'm using a TIDRadio TD-H8 (10 watt) radio.  If this works as I hope I'll have this setup tomorrow.

Now bridging the two -- I'd like to build a new area in Sync to show the APRS info and messages, even tie into the local weather stations broadcasting.  And for licensed radio operators I'd like to give them a way to create and send messages through the board through the iGate.  Again not sure how all this will tie together, but that's kindof the fun of it.  For now my goal is just to get APRS setup and working using Direwolf.

Any thoughts or ideas?  Thanks -- Sam

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