Geosat 6 APRS
The GPS solution for  APRS© operations

New highly performing hardware

Geosat 6 APRS comes with a slim and stylish design featuring a metal chassis, a 4.8” full colour display in 16:9 widescreen format  and a smart magnetic mount that makes it is very easy to place the navigator in the car.

Geosat 6 APRS has a renewed interface and a more sensitive GPS receiver: a ublox lea5s GPS for fast and highly accurate fix.

New navigation functions have been added such as the “Trip Computer” that shows overview of the journey, with speed graphs, info about average speed, highest speed reached, stop time etc.

Turn-by-turn vocal instructions announce complete street names thanks to the Text-to-Speech technology.

Full bi-directional RS-232 APRS© communication

The Geosat 6 APRS comes with a Kenwood-ready cable and exclusive APRS© bi-directional RS-232 APRS© interface compatible with ALL current APRS© ready Kenwood Radios, including the new TH-D72E. Geosat 6 APRS provides GPS location information for your transmitted APRS© beacons, and it shows received APRS© information on its map display. The unit can store up to 1000 APRS© contacts and display them on the map.

Intercept To Target

You can set your Geosat 6 APRS to navigate to your favourite APRS© mobile station and get rerouting instructions when the new position is reported!

APRS© icons

Watch APRS© activity right on the screen and you can distinguish between fixed and mobile APRS© stations. Static positions are represented by blue bulls-eye icons  along with the associated call sign. Moving positions are represented by red triangles and associated call sign. If used with a Kenwood D710A/E and if set in the KENWOOD format sentence, the Geosat 6 APRS supports standardized APRS© icons.

Tactical Mode

Geosat 6 APRS fully takes advantage of the Kenwood format sentence. The Tactical mode allows you to select an APRS contact to see its speed, course and altitude in addition to its call sign and position.

APRS contacts management

Thanks to the new APRS© contacts smart management, Geosat 6 APRS can auto-delete the received APRS© contacts’ positions after a set timeout. You can also sort your APRS© contacts by alphabetical order or receiving time.

APRS Messaging

When used with Byonics TinyTrack, Geosat 6 APRS allows APRS Messaging. Send text messages with ease thanks to the full virtual keyboard.

Download the Geosat 6 APRS SET UP MANUAL

APRS© was developed by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR

> Read the product review on Practical Wireless, October 2011

> Read the product review on QST , January 2012