ygate - Yaesu igate

(C)2018 Craig Lamparter \ \ \ \ \ \ General Public License v2

This software and a raspberry pi will turn your Yaesu radio (FT1D, FTM-400) into a receive-only APRS igate. All APRS packet traffic your radio hears will be forwarded to the Internet (APRS-IS Servers) for further routing.

Connect your Yaesu amateur radio with APRS to a Raspberry Pi (or PC) with the Yaesu-supplied USB cable. Set the radio to output "packet" data in "nmea9" format at "9600" bps over the com/serial port. This script will login to an aprsis server, and relay the packet data after reformatting the reduculous output from the radio into real APRS packet strings.

Be sure to set your callsign, password and position at the top of the script.

To do list:

• translate yaesu output into aprs packets, upload to aprs-is servers
• invalid callsign detection, currently filtered by aprs-is servers
• convert telnet sandbox to socket(s)
• lower latency
• duplicate detection and suppression with timer
• binary inspection, handle all encodings

Testing/QA:

• Yaesu FTM-400
• Yaesu FT1DR (not possible, aprs data on com port incomplete)
• Yaesu FT2DR
• Yaesu FTM-100