WinAPRS™ & Weather

APRS™, Automatic Postion Reporting System is a packet radio system that is gaining in popularity very fast. It was first introduced in 1992 and there are now versions for Mac, Windows and DOS. APRS allows graphical representation of stations and objects on a map display using packet radio to transmit the locations of these things. Among other things, this allows the collection of weather data and tracking of weather events by many people simultaniously.

WinAPRS and MacAPRS have many features that specifcally taylored to weather watching and Skywarn participents, these include:

Sample WinAPRS Weather Map

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