APRS Email Instructions

javAPRSEmail was written to provide the amateur radio APRS community a simple, but effective, email server for APRS-IS. As such, it does not offer many features that software written to function as a general client might offer such as status ports. It does, however, provide a multi-platform application tuned to present cleanly formatted packets to the APRS-IS feed and to the Internet email system.

It is the author's hope that this software will help to provide a general purpose email server to users of APRS-IS. This software provides bidirectional email which has very flexible configurations.

  • Send an Email from APRS

      • Send an APRS message to AD6NH-EM with the email address as the first word in the message text. If no other text is given, an email with a link to your position display will be sent.

      AD6NH-1>APRS::AD6NH-EM :ad6nh@arrl.net This is a test

  • Create an Email Shortcut from APRS
      • Send an APRS message to AD6NH-EM with the shortcut (single alphanumeric word) and the desired email address separated by a space.

      AD6NH-1>APRS::AD6NH-EM :me ad6nh@arrl.net

  • Delete an Email Shortcut from APRS
      • Send an APRS message to AD6NH-EM with the shortcut (single alphanumeric word) and the single letter r (case-insensitive) separated by a space.

      AD6NH-1>APRS::AD6NH-EM :me r

  • List Email Shortcuts via Email from APRS
      • Send an APRS message to AD6NH-EM with the desired shortcut or email address and the single lower-case letter L (case-insensitive) separated by a space. This will send an email to the specified address with all of the sending station’s shortcuts and email addresses.

      AD6NH-1>APRS::AD6NH-EM :me l

  • Send an Email using a Shortcut from APRS
      • Send an APRS message to AD6NH-EM with the shortcut as the first word in the message text. If no other text is given, an email with a link to your position display will be sent.

      AD6NH-1>APRS::AD6NH-EM :me This is a test

  • Send an APRS message using an Email
      • Note: You must have a registered shortcut on the AD6NH-EM email system before you can send messages to the APRS network. The email address assigned to this shortcut must match the sending email address or the message will be rejected.

      Send an email to aprsmail@aprsca.net. Place the callsign-ssid of the destination station followed by a colon followed by the message text on the subject line. Place userid:shortcut: in the message body where shortcut is the shortcut name associated with the sender’s email address.

      From: ad6nh@arrl.net
      To: aprsmail@aprsca.net
      Subject: AD6NH-1:This is a test
      userid:me:

      Note: Shortcuts are related to callsigns only (no SSID’s) so “me” in the above examples is a valid shortcut for any AD6NH stations. Every licensee controls its own shortcuts (AD6NH shortcuts are different from AE5PL shortcuts, etc.). Essentially, you are setting up your own address book of shortcuts. Remember, in order for a message to be originated from email and sent to the APRS network, the sending address must match the shortcut in the body of the email.