Long-time keeper of the TAPR kit inventory, Joe Borovetz, WA5VMS, became a silent key in September after a short illness. Joe was the TAPR “parts guy” for many years and took care of an awful lot of the boring stuff …
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Category: packet radio
TAPR’s packetRadio
By Stana Horzepa, WA1LOU
After returning home from Hamvention 30 years ago, I wrote the following for ARRL’s packet radio newsletter Gateway:
TAPR UNVEILS packetRADIO AT DAYTON
The Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) booth at the Dayton Hamvention was
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Misko and APRS in Reunion
By Miroslav ‘Misko’ Skoric, YT7MPB
The 7th edition of 2019 IEEE Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean (IEEE RADIO 2019), the international conference was held in Reunion Island September 23-26, 2019. I had a tutorial on amateur radio …
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Appalachian Golden Packet Expansion
By Bob Bruninga, WB4APR
We finished the Appalachian Golden Packet (ATGP) event with 15 hops to Maine and 14 hops back to Georgia.
We think we can increase throughput 20x or more for 2020 by totally changing our beacon plan, …
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