Everything Ham Radio Podcast

Hello everybody and welcome back to Everything Ham Radio! In this episode we are talking about the  Automatic Packet Reporting System or APRS for short. Last week we talked about Packet. APRS is alike in some ways, but different in others. While you can not talk keyboard-to-keyboard on APRS, you can send short message. You can even send a short email using APRS, which we will talk about a little later. HISTORY Over the years since APRS came about, I have heard different stories about how it came into being. One video that I watched that someone put on at a ham radio convention somewhere, was very adamant that the P in APRS stands for and also has stood for Packet, not Position like he heard a lot of people saying. When I first learned about APRS, I was always told that the P stood for Position, and to me it made a lot of sense that that is what it stood for because the general purpose of it that I saw, or maybe the commonly used purpose of it, was for "asset tracking". By assets I mean things like, storm