Introduction
    AGWPE Overview
    More about AGWPE
1. Interface
    Getting Started
    Kits and Pre-assembled
    Receive Audio Cable
    Transmit Audio Cable
    PTT (TX Control) Cable
    2 Radio Modification
2. AGWPE Set Up
    Download and Install
    Basic AGWPE Setup
    2 Radio Setup
    2 Card Setup
3. Sound Card Setup
    Basic Settings
    Additional Settings
    Tuning Aid
4. Windows™ Setup
    TCP/IP Settings
    Update Windows
5. Problems?
    Program Behavior
    Receiving
    Transmitting
    Connections
6. Using AGWPE
    AGWPE on a Network
    Baud Rates & Modes
    Remote Control
    TCP/IP Over Radio
    Tips and Tricks
    Traffic Parameters
7. Compatible Programs:
    Setup Help
    UI-View
    WinAPRS
    Winpack
    Others
8. Packet Reference
    Overview
    Exchange Modes
    Frame Headers
    TNCs and AGWPE
    What to do with Packet
    Common Frequencies
    Sound Card Mechanics
    Further Reading     
  
   

Radio Mobile Deluxe and AGWPE

Radio Mobile Deluxe (RMD) is a program that predicts radio propagation and signal path quality over specific terrain using digital elevation maps. It is quite an amazing and powerful program.

One of its features allows you to capture and plot APRS packets on the elevation maps using AGWPE. You can then "see" how well APRS digipeaters, home stations, and mobile stations will "hear" other's packets.

You can download the RMD files at:

Français: http://www.cplus.org/rmw/index.html
English: http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html

Note that RMD is difficult to setup and learn, and downloading digital elevation map data can be time consuming if you only have a dial-up internet connection. General instructions for program use are beyond the scope of this web page, but the specific setup for AGWPE is as follows:

1. Install and configure AGWPE and first test that AGWPE is working with AGWTerm.

2. Install and configure RMD. Create an RMD map for the APRS coverage area you wish to examine (see RMD's Help file).

3. From the RMD menu, select Options, then APRS Options. In the resulting APRS Setup window, do the following:

• Enter a check mark for Enable APRS.
• For AGWpacket Host enter the IP address of the computer where AGWPE is running. The default is 127.0.0.1, a special IP address that means 'this computer', in other words the same computer where RMD is running. If AGWPE is running on a different computer, enter the AGWPE computer's IP network address.
• For Port, use 8000, the default IP port that AGWPE uses. (It would only be different if you changed the port number in AGWPE's TCP/IP interface settings.)
• Press the Apply button and close the window.

APRS station callsigns should begin to appear on the RMD map and then disappear when a new station is heard. After the positions of relaying digipeaters are also received, RMD will then display the station originating the packet, the digipeater(s) it was heard through, and signal path lines connecting all of them.

To "permanently" display an APRS station position, use the lower half of the APRS Options window to make an APRS station in the left column become an RMD network "unit": check mark an available unit name/number in the right column, then highlight the APRS unit in the left column and press the arrow key between the two columns.

You can also add the APRS stations into a RMD "network" if you want to further examine APRS coverage and the APRS digipeater network, but explaining how to do that is beyond the scope of this page. You'll have to work with and learn RMD.