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The LoRa APRS iGate will work with very cheep hardware which you can buy from amazon, ebay or aliexpress.
Try it out and be part of the APRS network.
## what you need
## Supported boards
### Additional Boards Manager URL
You can use one of the Lora32 boards:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/gh-pages/package_esp32_index.json
* Heltec WiFi LoRa 32 V1 (433MHz SX1278)
* Heltec WiFi LoRa 32 V2 (433MHz SX1278) https://heltec.org/project/wifi-lora-32/
* TTGO LoRa32 V1 (433MHz SX1278)
* TTGO LoRa32 V2 (433MHz SX1278)
* many more...
### Additional Libraries
Here are some amazon-de links for some example boards:
* [Link](https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07VPHYYJD/)
* [Link](https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B078LXL5ZK/)
* [Link](https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07QRG89ZV/).
* NTPClient by Fabrice Weinberg
* LoRa by Sandeep Mistry
* APRS-IS-Lib by Peter Buchegger
* APRS-Decoder-Lib by Peter Buchegger
* Adafruit SSD1306 by Adafruit (with all dependecies)
This boards cost around 20 Euros, they are very cheap but perfect for an LoRa iGate.
Keep in minde: you need a 433MHz version!
## configuration
## what you need to compile
### Additional boards manager URL (Arduino IDE only)
```https://raw.githubusercontent.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/gh-pages/package_esp32_index.json
```
### Dependencies
* [NTPClient](https://github.com/arduino-libraries/NTPClient) by Fabrice Weinberg
* [LoRa](https://github.com/sandeepmistry/arduino-LoRa) by Sandeep Mistry
* [APRS-IS-Lib](https://github.com/peterus/APRS-IS-Lib) by Peter Buchegger
* [APRS-Decoder-Lib](https://github.com/peterus/APRS-Decoder-Lib) by Peter Buchegger
* [Adafruit SSD1306](https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_SSD1306) by Adafruit (with all dependecies)
## Configuration
Change your configuration in settings.h
## LoRa APRS iGates
## LoRa APRS iGates on aprs.fi
Feel free to add a link to your iGate here:
* https://aprs.fi/info/a/OE5BPA-10
* [OE5BPA-10](https://aprs.fi/info/a/OE5BPA-10)
## Future plans
The complete configuration should move to [IotWebConf](https://github.com/prampec/IotWebConf).