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CATS is a new comms and telemetry standard intended to surpass the current APRS standard by leveraging modern, super-cheap FSK transceivers
It does make a lot of sense as the more modern digital modes we’ve seen over ham radio, achieve the same with less bandwidth required, more accurate transmission, and better weak signal support.
It’s true though that APRS is very mature and widely supported through so many radios right now, so my big question is, how would this affect those radios? Will firmware update be possible, or will this work side-by-side with existing APRS? Luckily this is an open source type project so we won’t sit with the problem we’ve had with DRM, etc being proprietary.
My Kenwood TM-D710GA mobile rig is pretty expensive and not the sort of radio I’m just going to be able to replace (there is no other radio that does all that the Kenwood does).
See https://hackaday.com/2024/03/15/cats-a-new-communication-and-telemetry-system/
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