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SECONDS LATER, I WAS CONNECTED TO THE NODE AND THE GLOBAL INTERNET NETWORK
BEYOND SEE FIGURE 2.  APRS LIKE THE ANNOUNCER ON EVERY ANNOYING TELEVISION
COMMERCIAL, IM TEMPTED TO WRITE, BUT WAIT.  THERES MORE.  IN THE FT5DR,
MORE MEANS A BUILT IN GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM GPS RECEIVER SUPPORTING THE
ABILITY TO SEND AND RECEIVE DATA FROM THE AUTOMATIC PACKET REPORTING SYSTEM
APRS NETWORK.  TO USE THE APRS FEATURES, YOULL NEED TO DOWNLOAD A SEPARATE
MANUAL FROM THE YAESU WEBSITE WWW. YAESU. COM BECAUSE APRS IS A WORLD UNTO
ITSELF.  THE FT5DR PACKET MODEM OPERATES AT EITHER 1200 OR 9600 BAUD.  IT
CAN SEND AND RECEIVE APRS INFORMATION AND DISPLAY THE RESULTS SEE FIGURE 3.
I HAVE A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF APRS ACTIVITY IN MY AREA ON 144R39 MHZ, SO
IT WAS EASY TO SET UP THE FT5DRS APRS FEATURES AND JOIN THE FRAY.  WITH THE
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