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## Features & Benefits ##
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- Lower cost, higher performance alternative to hardware TNC.
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Decodes more than 1000 error-free frames from [WA8LMF TNC Test CD](http://wa8lmf.net/TNCtest/).
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![](direwolf-block-diagram.png)
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- Ideal for building a Raspberry Pi digipeater & IGate.
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### Dire Wolf includes: ###
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- Data rates: 300 AFSK, 1200 AFSK, 2400 QPSK, 4800 8PSK, and 9600/19200/38400 bps K9NG/G3RUH.
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- Interface with applications by
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- [AGW](http://uz7.ho.ua/includes/agwpeapi.htm) network protocol
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- [KISS](http://www.ax25.net/kiss.aspx) serial port
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- [KISS](http://www.ax25.net/kiss.aspx) TCP network protocol
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- Decoding of received information for troubleshooting.
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- Conversion from APRS to waypoint sentences in popular formats: $GPWPL, $PGRMW, $PMGNWPL, $PKWDWPL.
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- **Beaconing, Tracker, Telemetry Toolkit.**
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- Logging and conversion to GPX file format.
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Send periodic beacons to provide information to others. For tracking the location is provided by a GPS receiver.
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Build your own telemetry applications with the toolkit.
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- Beaconing for yourself or other nearby entities.
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- **APRStt Gateway.**
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- Very flexible Digipeating with routing and filtering between up to 6 ports.
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Very few hams have portable equipment for APRS but nearly everyone has a handheld radio that can send DTMF tones. APRStt allows a user, equipped with only DTMF (commonly known as Touch Tone) generation capability, to enter information into the global APRS data network. Responses can be sent by Morse Code or synthesized speech.
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- APRStt gateway - converts touch tone sequences to APRS objects and voice responses.
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- **Digipeaters for APRS and traditional Packet Radio.**
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- APRS Internet Gateway (IGate) with IPv6 support and special SATGate mode.
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Extend the range of other stations by re-transmitting their signals. Unmatched flexibility for cross band repeating and filtering to limit what is retransmitted.
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- APRS Telemetry Toolkit.
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- **Internet Gateway (IGate).**
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- Compatible with software defined radios (SDR) such as [gqrx](http://gqrx.dk/), [rtl_fm](http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr), and SDR#.
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IGate stations allow communication between disjoint radio networks by allowing some content to flow between them over the Internet.
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- Includes separate raw packet decoder, decode_aprs.
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- AX.25 v2.2 connected mode. (New in version 1.4.)
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- **AX.25 v2.2 Link Layer.**
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Traditional connected mode packet radio where the TNC automatically retries transmissions and delivers data in the right order.
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- **KISS Interface (TCP/IP, serial port, Bluetooth) & AGW network Interface (TCP/IP).**
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Dire Wolf can be used as a virtual TNC for applications such as APRSIS32, UI-View32, Xastir, APRS-TW,YAAC, UISS, Linux AX25, SARTrack, RMS Express, Outpost PM, and many others.
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### Radio Interfaces: ###
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- **Uses computer’s “soundcard” and digital signal processing.**
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Lower cost and better performance than specialized hardware. Decodes more than 1000 error-free frames from [WA8LMF TNC Test CD](http://wa8lmf.net/TNCtest/).
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- **Standard 300, 1200 & 9600 bps modems and more.**
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- **DTMF (“Touch Tone”) Decoding and Encoding.**
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- **Speech Synthesizer & Morse code generator.**
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Transmit human understandable messages.
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- **Compatible with Software Defined Radios such as gqrx, rtl_fm, and SDR#.**
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- **Concurrent operation with up to 3 soundcards and 6 radios.**
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### Portable & Open Source: ###
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- **Runs on Windows, Linux (PC/laptop, Raspberry Pi, etc.), Mac OSX.**
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- Open source so you can see how it works and make your own modifications.
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- Runs in 3 different environments:
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- Microsoft Windows XP or later
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- Linux, regular PC/laptop or single board computer such as Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone Black, cubieboard 2, or C.H.I.P.
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- Mac OS X
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## Documentation ##
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