Position · messaging · road awareness
APRS
A useful travel and field layer, handled with enough privacy to avoid broadcasting the family calendar.
North American APRS channel
Team Stone uses APRS on 144.390 MHz for position reporting, messaging, travel awareness, and field use. APRS does not use a voice PL tone on the national packet channel.
Road travel
APRS is particularly useful on the long Chico-to-Bremerton corridor and other trips where vehicles, stops, coverage, and arrival timing matter. It complements voice plans and ordinary cellular location sharing rather than replacing them.
Public identity
The preferred public station identity is K6RCS-7 where supported. Hotspot, software, infrastructure, and temporary identities should remain distinct so a map symbol still means something.
Privacy
Public examples should avoid exposing home patterns, children’s routines, school travel, sensitive destinations, or live family movement unnecessarily. Historical maps can be delayed, cropped, or redacted.