Digipeater

[Glenn N3MEL]

Greetings,

I have been using APRS.FI for years and believe I also have the extra features. I have recently purchased the new BTECH UV Pro HT and the APRS portion works well, except it will not act as a portable digipeater as a standalone radio. 

Google said it would with using the IOS app like APRS.fi, if this is true how do I set that up? 

Thanks in advance!

Glenn/N3MEL

[Heikki Hannikainen]

Hi!

The aprs.fi app works fine with the UV PRO, with the radio and the aprs.fi
app APRS text messaging is quite convenient and received stations are
shown on the map. The beacon feature is also easier to use on the phone,
just rememember to disable the APRS beacon on the radio when using the one
on the app, so that there aren't two different beacons running. Also,
upgrade the radio firmware to the latest version, there have been quite a
lot of fixes to APRS and TNC functionality since the release of the radio.

But the aprs.fi app does not yet have a digipeater, either. I'll surely
add it but I cannot commit to a schedule.

The new user guide has some things to say about BLE KISS TNCs like the UV
Pro and VGC VR N76:

https://ios-guide.aprs.fi/#_using_a_ble_tnc_or_radio

- Hessu