Use your radio to send SMS text messages! (New method)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Thanks to Michael Phelps NA7Q, we're back in the APRS Radio-to-SMS business! "SMSGTE" is currently offline, so let's use the new "SMS" gateway instead. Two-way text messaging between APRS-enabled radios and phones is now simple and easy.
Start here,
theconnectdesk....
Be sure to "opt-in" any phone numbers you'll be using.
Nice to see someone pick this up after SMSGTE shutdown! 😃👊👍
Glad to keep it going!
One of the best SMSGTE features was that you could assign an alias to phone numbers. As such, you didn't have to broadcast across APRS the destination phone number. If you assigned "Sam" to Sam's phone number, in your APRS packet, you'd send it to "Sam" and not to their phone number. Better privacy, shorter message and less chance of phone numbers being skimmed and spammed.
He implemented aliases a few weeks ago... give it a shot
It looks like the alias system has the user send the target phone number in cleartext over APRS to register the alias, which defeats the purpose. Would be ideal if the alias creation was on a webpage (like SMSGTE) or via phone (perhaps you could receive a text from the service when you first register/opt-in your own number, which you can reply to with aliases to create).
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Craig is that a Piomi (?spelling) retropi console? I've been looking for an affordable build option. thanks
its a Villros console... amazon
will this work with digi aprs?
Great video.
Hi. Love your videos. Thank you for sharing. I am curious as to how you would program this into a HT DMR. It is just as simple as sending it to SMS on 144.390? Trying to work out my code plug and can't seem to get it to work. Thank you.
hey, thanks, but dmr radios dont modulate audio afaik, so no aprs. is there an analog voice mode?
@@craig9309 Yes there is an analog voice mode.
I'm from the UK and new to APRS. Can you still use APRS without internet? Is APRS dependent on external infrastructure? Will you still be able to send a text message miles away without internet to a mobile device? How can I learn APRS and get good at it? Will this work using a Baofeng radio?
Thank you in advance 📡
That's a bunch of questions @nxesr! :) APRS uses the internet to bridge distances that RF can't go. If there's no internet, it's all RF to RF and mobile phones don't use RF/radio, so no SMS. APRS can use digipeaters to bounce you packet around your country which will likely make it to an internet igate, and be routed from there to phones.
Thank you for this! works great!
Can this system be used to send text messages in the Bahamas? Specifically thinking of welfare massages to family members on other islands when a hurricane hits.
As far as i know it's US and Canada, hopefully somebody can correct this.
Do I need a digipi? Or how I can do this without . What is a we site to do this
Any radio with APRS capabilities can do this (aprs messaging)
@@craig9309 to send to a cell?
It’s not at all clear what exactly you’re trying to demonstrate‽
All I saw was a guy enter some text into a webform, click send and receive a text message, which isn’t at all impressive. Now I understand that ostensibly, the text was encoded as a message, a waveform was rendered and then somewhere something broadcast that waveform over RF then something intercepted that msg and got it to the cell phone but how does any of this work? I see the video feed of the radio in the bottom corner, but is it broadcasting or receiving? If the internet is required, what real utilities does this serve? What’s the role of the web service: just encode the waveform or is it some kind of SMS gateway. During the radio transmission what is receiving? The cell phone directly or another radio with a web connection?
I agree, but with youtube's 10-minute attention span on average (hams are a bit more), it'd take about 30 minutes to explain the APRS network.... and yes, your observations are right, all RF on the transmit/receive locally. The rest of the infrastructure was somewhere in California.
Thxs for replying! Not a licensed operator here, but after a bit of reading up on APRS; I think I got it figured out. Neat!
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Can you send out a massive text blast
Anyone know if this can be made to work with just an HT radio (over the analog frequency I mean)?? I have APRS GPS location messages working but I don't immediately see how to send a message to "SMS" from the HT. I'm trying this with an Anytone D878UV+ if that makes a difference (yes, I know it can't do RX, just trying to TX for now).
Did you get this worked out? The best way I know is to use a Mobilnkd tnc with the proper cable and use APRSdroid or the equivalant for IOS from your phone. Hit me up if you need more info.
Great video, shame its US + Canada only ☹
More to come. Just comes down to costs, implementation, and following regulations at this point.
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I don’t believe the higher frequencies you speak of can reach such long distances, hence why we have this in the first place