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APRS Day Out 2026

  • When: February 13-15 2026
  • Where: Hamcation - Orlando, FL
  • Frequency 147.585
  • APRS Path TEMP1-1
  • More Info

The Daytona Beach Amateur Radio Association is putting an APRS "Day Out" digipeater on the air to cover the fairgrounds during Hamcation 2026. We hope that you will join the event network by tuning your APRS radio to 147.585 and using the path of TEMP1-1.

What should you do?
  • Join the Network! (See radio configuration below)
  • Send out a CQ message (Group message) and say hello
  • Share Hamcation related information through APRS bulletins
  • Monitor your radio's APRS messages for incoming information
How to configure your radio

APRS Day Out is the brain child of Bob Bruninga, WB4APR/sk. In his words "The purpose of the APRS Day out is to test our skills at forming ad-hoc networks in ham radio for use at events and disasters. APRS is ideal for coordination communications among portable VHF and UHF stations and roving vehicles. Of course stations and rovers have nearly perfect connectivity using the existing national APRS network on the established national channel of 144.39. But this channel is usually overloaded with other stations, vulnerable to power and internet outages and it is hard to see who is involved in the event among the other thousands of permanent users there. To see only the other stations in the event, stations can use APRS on the national HamIM channel of 147.585 as a temporary ad-hoc APRS channel. The only stations on that frequency will be other real-time participants"

Reference: http://www.aprs.org/APRS-day-out.html

Thanks to N2EDX & KA4UPW for maintaing the day out digipeater during Hamcation.

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