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 You can have a little fun with this! Because you can use a text file for your beacon text, you can write some scripts, python, do some node red stuff, or whatever floats your boat, to periodically change this text file so that instead of static text, your beacon also includes some information. Lots of people put local weather information, but you can have some fun with it - members of FARPN have been known to put things like bird spotting details, or the data from environmental sensors in their chicken coop, as part of their Beacons :-) You can have a little fun with this! Because you can use a text file for your beacon text, you can write some scripts, python, do some node red stuff, or whatever floats your boat, to periodically change this text file so that instead of static text, your beacon also includes some information. Lots of people put local weather information, but you can have some fun with it - members of FARPN have been known to put things like bird spotting details, or the data from environmental sensors in their chicken coop, as part of their Beacons :-)
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 +If you want to appear on an APRS map (like https://aprs.fi) or the FARPN Spothole instance (see [[mwtchahrd]] for now), you can set up your beacon like this: [[tutorial-location-beacon|Adding APRS locations to beacons]].
  
 There are a bunch of other ways to also "Send Packets" that you'll end up doing if you continue on with some of our other guides located in our [[now-what|So Now What?]] section. There are a bunch of other ways to also "Send Packets" that you'll end up doing if you continue on with some of our other guides located in our [[now-what|So Now What?]] section.
  
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