LoRa APRS iGate

The LoRa APRS iGate will work with very cheep hardware which you can buy from amazon, ebay or aliexpress. Try it out and be part of the APRS network.

Supported boards

You can use one of the Lora32 boards:

• Heltec WiFi LoRa 32 V1 (433MHz SX1278)
• Heltec WiFi LoRa 32 V2 (433MHz SX1278) https://heltec.org/project/wifi-lora-32/
• TTGO LoRa32 V1 (433MHz SX1278)
• TTGO LoRa32 V2 (433MHz SX1278)
• TTGO T-Beam V0.7 (433MHz SX1278)
• TTGO T-Beam V1 (433MHz SX1278)
• many more...

Here are some amazon-de links for some example boards:

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This boards cost around 20 Euros, they are very cheap but perfect for an LoRa iGate. Keep in minde: you need a 433MHz version!

Compiling

How to compile

The best success is to use PlatformIO. Go to https://platformio.org/ and download the IDE. Just open the folder and you can compile the Firmware.

Dependencies

• NTPClient by Fabrice Weinberg
• LoRa by Sandeep Mistry
• APRS-IS-Lib by Peter Buchegger
• APRS-Decoder-Lib by Peter Buchegger
• Adafruit SSD1306 by Adafruit (with all dependecies)

Configuration

Change your configuration in settings.h

LoRa APRS iGates on aprs.fi

Feel free to add a link to your iGate here:

• OE5BPA-10

Future plans

The complete configuration should move to IotWebConf.

LoRa Tracker

Look at my other project: a LoRa Tracker