I have been working on PerlAPRS for the past few months. It provides some
unique functionality for APRS users. The code is stable and I now fell
comfortable releasing. The paper describing it was published in the
proceedings of the 16th ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference held
this past weekend in Baltimore, MD. The abstract is below. You can see
the paper and get the software at:
http://people.qualcomm.com/rparry/perlaprs
--- ABSTRACT ---
PerlAPRS is an application which can monitor both local TNC received APRS
packets and remote Internet APRS packets and perform an automated action
based on criteria specified by the user. The criteria that PerlAPRS uses
is the callsign of the station and its location specified as a Maidenhead
Grid Square. Other requirements specified by the user increase
functionality of the program in real world applications. The actions
executed can be written in any language, but UNIX style shell scripts are
ideally suited for this purpose. Scripts can be developed to perform
functions such as automatic notification via email as well as logging.
PerlAPRS is freely distributed under the GNU licensing agreement.
The applications was developed under Linux/UNIX, but since it was written
in perl it should work on any platform. I look forward to hearing from
anyone using it.
73,
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Richard Parry, P.E., W9IF - Qualcomm, Inc. Globalstar/Gateway RLGTS
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