Could the Flipper be programmed to receive APRS? I know that it is not in the band space to TX but the ability to receive from digi repeater could be useful. What are yals thoughts.
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I think the biggest issue is that APRS is in the 2m band, 144.390MHz in the US. The radio in the flipper only goes down to 300MHz.
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I think receive is plausible but I suspect performance would be very poor. When you push a radio to receive outside it’s band performance diminishes. The antenna isn’t tuned for that frequency which is another strike against it. There is another Ham related project for POCSAG that is promising. The MMDVM boards allows Hams to run a mini pager network and you can pick a frequency the Flipper likes.