• About APRSPH Net
• How to join APRSPH Net and other commands
• SMS gateway
• Thuraya satellite SMS gateway
• Changelog
• Supporting APRSPH Net
• Current month logs

About

How to join and use APRSPH

• CQ [space] your message to send a message to everyone checked in for the day. This also adds you to the net log, and you will subsequently receive any CQ messages received by APRSPH thereafter. Subsequent CQ messages will also be sent to everyone in the list.
• NET [space] your message will quietly join you into the daily net. This will not alert everyone in the net, but your callsign and message will be logged below. The message is optional. Sending NET without a message after will still log your callsign into the net and the recipient list. You will then receive subsequent CQ messages whenever someone checks in or sends a new CQ message.

• LIST to view the current day's list of checked-in stations.
• LAST to see the last 5 messages (use LAST10 for 10 messages or LAST15 for 15 messages). LAST THURS retrieves the last 5 messages from the #APRThursday log. LAST10 or LAST15 will also work.
• MINE to view the recent CQ/NET messages sent by your own station to the net in the current month. You may include a callsign-ssid to review the last messages sent by that station (e.g., MINE DU2XXR-7). Use MINE10 or MINE15 for 10 or 15 messages, respectively. MINE THURS will retrieve your last #APRSThursday messages. MINE10 and MINE15 will also work.
• SEARCH [space] word or phrase to find the last 5 messages from the month that contain the word or phrase. SEARCH10 or SEARCH15 to fetch 10 or 15 messages, respectively
• ?APRST or ?PING? to get a message with the path/s your packet took to the bot.
• ?APRSP to make the bot send a position packet.
• ?APRSS to make the bot send a status packet with the count of checkins for the day and total SMS processed.
• ?APRSM or MSG to retrieve the last 10 messages sent to your callsign+ssid, using the aprs.fi API. Alternative command is M. Example: ?APRSM Add a callsign-ssid after to retrieve messages directed to that callsign. Example: ?APRSM DU2XXR-7
• UNSUBSCRIBE or U to check out from the day's net. You will no longer receive CQ messages until you rejoin. You may add a checkout text message after the command, which will also be recorded on the log. Example: U checking out for the day. See u tomorrow.
• HELP for a list of other commands.
• The net restarts every 0000Z or midnight UTC time and you need to check in again to rejoin.

• Send a DMR message to your master server's APRS gateway. For example if you are using the BM_5151 server, APRS gateway is 515999
• Message format (callsigns are case sensitive): APRSPH [space] CQ [space] Your net message here.
• You can also do a "quiet" checkin. Get logged without sending the message to everyone in the list: APRSPH [space] NET [space] Your net message here.

SMS gateway commands (for Philippine numbers only)

• SMS [space] 09######### [space] your message - sends an SMS message to the number indicated. This only supports numbers from the Philippines.
• SMSALIAS is also supported, to prevent cell #s from appearing on the air or on APRS-IS. SMSALIAS [space] 09######### [space] NAME to set an alias. SMS [space] NAME [space] message to send thereafter. Short one-word names are recommended.

• To send from SMS to any APRS user, send an SMS message to 09760685303: @CALSGN-SSID [space] your message - This sends a message to that station. If youare unsure of the SSID, you may just write the callsign. APRS network will still send it.
• For example: @DU2XXR-7 Hello there, this is sent to APRS from SMS.

• ALIAS [space] NAME This protects your cellular number from appearing on APRS-IS services.

SAT command for sending SMS to Thuraya satellite phones

From the radio
• SAT [space] ########## [space] your message - sends an SMS message to the number indicated. This only supports Thuraya satelite phones. ######## is the number that comes after the +88216 country code. So, for example your Thuraya number is +8821612345678, your command should be SAT 12345678 Hello this is a test message.
From cellular SMS (Philippine networks) - send to the gateway number 09760685303.
• SAT [space] ########## [space] your message - sends an SMS message to the number indicated.

• n2rac.com/80db85f2c927 for more information about the bot.
• aprs.fi/bulletin/net for other updates.
• github.com/jangelor/ioreth for the script.
• Contact the net manager at DU2XXR-7 or at [email protected].
• You can also follow me on my N2RAC website or on Mastodon or Mastodon.

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Changelog

• 2023-01-28: Added the ?APRSM feature, which lets users retrieve their last 5 messages from aprs.fi.
• 2023-02-02: Improved handling of longer messages in relay and retrieval (pagination into 2 messages so it is not truncated)
• 2023-03-26: Page now refreshes every 10 minutes. APRSPH also automatically advises all checked in stations that the net is about to restart.
• 2023-03-29: Improved reply for CQ and NET messages to include timestamp to better handle clients that ignore duplicate messages (because our messages don't have msgID).
• 2023-04-04: Added UNSUBSCRIBE command.
• 2023-04-12: Added queries for retrieving #APRSThursday entries. Also improved the MINE, SEARCH commands to cover current month plus archives.
• 2023-04-16: Throttled self ?APRSM to 1 query per 5 minutes, since a duplicate query will result in a different response set every time because the responses will now be the last messages received. Update: Changed to 30 minutes, as of 2023-05-04.
• 2023-06-05: Minor fix to the SMSALIAS code to accommodate for extra spaces which results in no match.
• 2023-06-30: Fixes to the back-end code to deal with looping messages and garbage characters from igates that cause looping.
• 2023-07-04: Added support for ?APRSP and ?APRSS commands.
• 2023-09-04: Edits to replace brackets to avoid HTML tags in log
• 2024-01-11: Changed relay mechanism to include original callsign and SSID as the sender instead of APRSPH. Started to support direct logging of APRSThursday net without ANSRVR relay.

Net logs for May 2024