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APRS station W9GIL-9 - show graphs
Comment: Catch me if you can...
Location: 42°03.18' N 87°53.44' W - locator EN62BB32DR - show map
2.3 km North bearing 345° from Des Plaines, Cook County, Illinois, United States [?]
6.2 km Northwest bearing 318° from Park Ridge, Cook County, Illinois, United States
30.1 km Northwest bearing 319° from Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
109.6 km South bearing 179° from Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States
Last position: 2025-06-28 13:03:18 UTC (4h36m ago)
2025-06-28 08:03:18 CDT local time at Des Plaines, United States [?]
Altitude: 200 m
Course: 304°
Speed: 0 km/h
Device: SQ9MDD: LoRa KISS TNC/Tracker (tracker)
Last path: W9GIL-9>APLOX1 via WIDE1-1,qAO,W9GIL (good)
Positions stored: 540522
Other SSIDs: W9GIL-10 W9GIL-15 W9GIL-2 W9GIL W9GIL-7 W9GIL-5 W9GIL-11 W9GIL-R W9GIL-FM W9GIL-4 W9GIL-8
Last heard a station directly: 2024-10-01 16:46:09 UTC (270d 54m 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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