APRScaching¶
Find real places on the air. APRScaching is a geocaching game for radio amateurs, with a ham-radio Shack around it. You hide a cache, go and find it, and log the find. Where a radio station heard you near the cache, the find counts as verified by radio. It runs in a browser, self-hosts on a Raspberry Pi, and links up with other instances into one open network.
New here?
Sign in at aprscaching.net with your callsign and log your first find. There is nothing to install. Your first find walks you through it in five minutes.
Who are you?¶
| I want to… | Start here |
|---|---|
| Play: find and hide caches | What is APRScaching? |
| Operate: my radio, packet and the Shack apps | The Shack at a glance |
| Run an instance for my club, my region or off-grid | Is running an instance for me? |
| Build on it: the API, the wire formats, the configuration | HTTP API |
| Contribute: run the code, test it, change it | Contribute |
Instances form one network with no central server: caches, finds and find confirmations travel between them as signed records, and each sysop decides whom to trust (How federation works).
A term you don't know is in the Glossary. What an instance keeps about you, and for how long, is under Privacy by default.
Next¶
- What is APRScaching?: the game in five minutes.
- Is running an instance for me?: for a club, a region or an off-grid station.