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 ====== Adding APRS locations to beacons ======
-Adding an appropriately encoded APRS string to your node's routine beacon text can be a great way to help advertise your node's availability via the APRS network - BPQ nodes configured for APRS, Direwolf, or even other APRS applications like Xastir connected to direwolf, that are listening on your packet node's transmit frequency can decode the beacon text as if it were a normal APRS packet, and iGate them to the APRS-IS network, where they are accessible to the broader APRS user community.  It also allows you to check sites like aprs.fi to see what other packet nodes configured for APRS are able to hear your station's beacons, what times of day, under what band conditions, etc.
+Adding an appropriately encoded APRS string to your node's routine beacon text can be a great way to help advertise your node's availability via the APRS network - BPQ nodes configured for APRS, Direwolf, or even other APRS applications like Xastir connected to direwolf, that are listening on your packet node's transmit frequency can decode the beacon text as if it were a normal APRS packet, and iGate them to the APRS-IS network, where they are accessible to the broader APRS user community.  It also allows you to check sites like aprs.fi to see what other packet nodes configured for APRS are able to hear your station's beacons, what times of day, under what band conditions, etc.  It can be a lot of fun on Network105 (20m HF packet) to see your station's beacon iGated from thousands of kilometers away!