I went for a lunchtime run with a LILYGO T-Beam in my pocket running LoRa APRS tracker firmware ( https://github.com/richonguzman/LoRa_APRS_Tracker) on 70cm! It worked surprisingly well despite being a bit uncomfortable.

I flashed another LILYGO thingy with the I-gate firmware ( https://github.com/richonguzman/LoRa_APRS_iGate) and attached that to my antenna at home.

Overall pretty cool and cheap, and worth trying on the car.

I found https://lora-aprs.live/ pretty useful while setting things up.

#lora #aprs

A small rectangular circuit board with a display on the left an antenna attached vertically to the middle and a couple of visible modules on the right (a GPS and one marked LILYGO). The display reads M0PUH-7 and had a date, time and battery voltage, among other details.

A screenshot of a section of a map from aprs.fi. The map shows a short route along a canal, tracking M0PUH-7 on the 3rd December 2024.