Penang APRS Network

Second day after the iGate is up and running and data collected is impressive, we manage to cover 80% of east coast of Penang island and some part of mainland which was not possible previously.

Our iGate is currently back online, and surprisingly the transceiver upgrade allow the iGate to receive 9W2FKT’s signal directly all the way from batu maung after he left 9W2POP’s QTH which was impossible previously when we rely on portable radio connected to the iGate as receiver and the same antenna setup and location.

Previous post mention that our Penang APRS infrastructures were taken offline due to hardware upgrade, now I’ll write about the upgrades we did to our iGate. This upgrade consists of a new custom ordered transceiver which allow us to decode the APRS packets directly to the TNC without going through …

If you do notice that both our digipeater(9W2FKT-3) and iGate(9W2POP-3) is missing from the APRS.fi map, dont worry we are currently upgrading both of our infrastructure to handle more traffic and better stability. Both station will receive new antenna and transceiver unit upgrade which we are currently running final configure …

The past few days few of our crew attached to the Radio Signal Unit of St John Ambulance Penang to provide radio communication and APRS for the entire Kelantan Flood Relief Mission. The mission is challenging as most of the kelantan local voice repeater, APRS digipeater and iGates are offline …