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The following is a message from APRS Connect:

APRS Connect is a new APRS client for Android, built around conversations rather than a packet console. It is free to install and use over APRS-IS. APRS Connect Pro, a subscription after a 7-day free trial, adds radio connections, offline map downloads, the radar layer, track export, extra beacon profiles and capture replay. An iOS version is in progress.

Most of what answers on APRS is a bot that expects exact wording. APRS Connect keeps a directory of 22 of them and gives each a guided screen instead of a command to memorize: WXBOT and WXNOW weather, the REPEAT repeater finder, WHO-IS lookup, the SMS, email, Winlink and WhatsApp gateways, the QRX missed-message mailbox, APSPOT and APRS2SOTA self-spotting, and ANSRVR group nets. The exact packet each button will send can be shown before it goes out, and you can always type a command by hand instead. #APRSThursday and other ANSRVR groups appear as a single net room rather than a thread per stranger, and APRS OTA ops can be hosted and chased from one screen.

Messages are kept as one thread per station, with delivery state on every message and automatic retries. All of this is in the free app.

With Pro, the app connects to KISS TNCs over Bluetooth Classic, Bluetooth LE, USB serial, or TCP, or to a radio’s speaker and mic through a built-in AFSK 1200 audio modem with VOX or wired PTT. Several links can run at once as named channels, alongside APRS-IS, and every received frame is tagged with the link that carried it.

The map is a vector basemap rendered on the phone. Every tile you view is cached and redraws with no connection; whole regions download ahead of a trip with Pro. Every frame heard is stored and decoded field by field in the packet log, which can be filtered and exported as a capture file.

More at https://aprsconnect.com, with what is free and what Pro adds at https://aprsconnect.com/docs/free-and-pro and the full feature list at https://aprsconnect.com/features. Google Play: https://aprsconnect.com/get/89x5bv.

Source: APRS Connect

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Users of the Veritium HFClock now have a fix available to keep their HamClock based device functional. N2TBN and AI4Y have teamed up to provide detailed, step-by-step directions aimed at getting Veritium HFClocks working again. The procedure requires removing the rear panel and flashing the device’s firmware.

Once the new firmware is applied, users will run through a few brief setup steps and HFClock will continue to operate.

HFClock owners can download PDF instructions that describe how to fix their device.

Source: AI4Y

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Former ARRL Chief Operating Officer (COO) Harold Robert Kramer, WJ1B, of Cheshire, Connecticut, passed away on Monday, August 31, 2026, at age 78. Kramer served as COO and QST Publisher from 2005 to 2016, following a career in broadcasting. He was an ARRL Life Member and donor, supporting the Diamond Club, the Second Century Campaign, and the ARRL Lab.

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By Rob Rosenberger (K4HST)

The FCC erroneously issued call sign “WB4MZ0” (numeral zero) on December 5, 1994 to the Wedixie Amateur Radio Club in Marietta, Georgia. Somebody typed it wrong into the FCC’s database. The club’s call sign trustee, David Budner WA4PUB, perhaps didn’t notice it? The club never brought it up to the FCC.

Four-and-a-half years went by. The FCC’s database continued to grow. And WB4MZ0 remained an active call sign!

In mid-1999, the FCC prepared to elevate its ULS database as the “system of record” for all call signs. That’s when somebody (perhaps a database administrator?) discovered the error.

The FCC researched it and they discovered “WB4MZO” (letter) had not yet been assigned. On July 21, 1999 they canceled WB4MZ0 and issued WB4MZO to the club.

Twenty-six days later, on August 16, 1999, the FCC declared its ULS database the “system of record.” Its underlying software now handles all call signs. No one manually types an amateur call sign.

If you download the ULS files, you’ll see five relational database records for WB4MZ0. And you’ll see nine relational database records for WB4MZO.

Wedixie Amateur Radio Club disbanded and canceled its call sign on February 22, 2024. The “O” (letter) call sign became available for vanity assignment on February 23, 2026. If you know any elmers in Marietta, ask them for more details about it!

Source: K4HST

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