52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Week 50: Receive an APRS message or beacon

Challenge for 2025-12-08 - 2025-12-14:

Category: 📻 - Difficulty: 🟠

Receive an APRS message or beacon
Can be classic APRS, or LoRa. What gear did you use, how did you decode the transmission?


Toots mentioning this challenge

DateUserUser scoreStatusToot summary & link
2025-03-17 15:55:40n8dmt@mastodon.radio21Success!#HamChallenge HC50S Receive an APRS message or beacon.Still working to get some replacement radios configured for APRS. Received and decoded an APRS message on a AT-D578UVIII Plus radio. APRS message sent from family member’s Yaesu VX-8DR with external GPS speaker microphone. #HamRadio #APRS
2025-09-19 12:46:15davekuk@mastodon.radio13Success!#HamChallenge HC50S Got may SDRplay frequency dialed in and was able to begin receiving APRS packets on my OpenWebRX install.
2025-12-07 10:42:53ian@mastodon.radio44Success!Getting ahead of the game with #HamChallenge week 50: Receive an APRS message or beacon. Well, Plane/Sailing just does this for me anyway so no need for a special effort this week. It's currently got 14 "live" APRS tracks (position message received in last hour) and 186 in the database (last three months).HC50S
2025-12-09 22:57:41ei7ijb@mastodon.radio10Working on it...For the 50th challenge, ‘Receive an APRS message or beacon’, I will give this a try using the current setup. #hamchallenge HC50 @hamchallenge
2025-12-25 18:09:34df5go@radiosocial.de28Success!#HamChallenge Week 50: Receive an APRS message or beaconThis year I set up a #APRS receiver using my FT-847 connected to my computer running the software packages DireWolf and APRSIS32 and monitored local APRS traffic from time to time. I received some repeaters announcing their frequencies, some hams broadcasting the locations of their cars and a club station promoting the forthcoming club events. #HC50S #hamradio #amateurradio #Amateurfunk

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