{"id":93,"date":"2011-02-27T21:50:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T04:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preparedblog.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2011-02-27T21:50:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T04:50:46","slug":"how-can-you-see-aprs-transmitters-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/radio\/how-can-you-see-aprs-transmitters-online\/","title":{"rendered":"How can you see APRS transmitters online?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people and vehicles use APRS to broadcast their location.\u00a0 Their\u00a0radios act as\u00a0beacons, and they can be seen online here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/aprs.fi\/\">http:\/\/aprs.fi<\/a>.\u00a0 (Give it a minute to load &#8211; you may have a lot of data to show in your area.)\u00a0 This\u00a0map provides up-to-date, accurate location information showing people, vehicles, boats, etc., as they continuously transmit packets GPS of data to other APRS-compatible radios.\u00a0 Take a look and see for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>You can see a recent snapshot of APRS activity across the U.S. here, from late 2010:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprs.org\/maps\/USA-Turkey-10.png\">http:\/\/www.aprs.org\/maps\/USA-Turkey-10.png<\/a>.\u00a0 As you can see, most of the APRS traffic takes place in urban areas or near highways, but plenty of people in rural areas use APRS too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people and vehicles use APRS to broadcast their location.\u00a0 Their\u00a0radios act as\u00a0beacons, and they can be seen online here:\u00a0 http:\/\/aprs.fi.\u00a0 (Give it a minute to load &#8211; you may have a lot of data to show in your area.)\u00a0 This\u00a0map provides up-to-date, accurate location information showing people, vehicles, boats, etc., as they continuously transmit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/radio\/how-can-you-see-aprs-transmitters-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How can you see APRS transmitters online?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,37],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","tag-amateur-radio","tag-aprs","tag-ham-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}