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APRS station W9GIL-9 - show graphs
Comment: Catch me if you can...
Location: 41°47.52' N 87°35.12' W - locator EN61ET90SB - show map
8.4 km Southeast bearing 140° from Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States [?]
15.3 km Northeast bearing 38° from Merrionette Park, Cook County, Illinois, United States
15.7 km Northeast bearing 23° from Calumet Park, Cook County, Illinois, United States
61.0 km East bearing 86° from Aurora, Kane County, Illinois, United States
Last position: 2025-08-03 16:26:10 UTC (2h46m ago)
2025-08-03 11:26:10 CDT local time at Chicago, United States [?]
Altitude: 176 m
Course: 88°
Speed: 33 km/h
Device: SQ9MDD: LoRa KISS TNC/Tracker (tracker)
Last path: W9GIL-9>APLOX1 via WIDE1-1,qAO,W9GIL (good)
Positions stored: 546324
Other SSIDs: W9GIL W9GIL-2 W9GIL-10 W9GIL-15 W9GIL-8 W9GIL-7 W9GIL-5 W9GIL-11 W9GIL-R W9GIL-FM W9GIL-4
Last heard a station directly: 2024-10-01 16:46:09 UTC (306d 2h26m ago)
Stations which heard W9GIL-9 directly on radio –
callsign pkts first heard - UTC last heard longest (tx => rx) longest at - UTC

Only position packets which were originated by the station are shown here. The range statistics show some extra long hops, because some digipeaters do not correctly add themselves to the digipeater path. Please check the raw packets.
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This page shows real-time information collected from the Automatic Position Reporting System Internet network (APRS-IS). APRS is used by amateur (ham) radio operators to transmit real-time position information, weather data, telemetry and messages over the radio. A vehicle equipped with a GPS receiver, a VHF transmitter or HF transceiver and a small computer device called a tracker transmits it's location, speed and course in a small data packet, which is then received by a nearby iGate receiving site which forwards the packet on the Internet. Systems connected to the Internet can send information on the APRS-IS without a radio transmitter, or collect and display information transmitted anywhere in the world.
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