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The live map

This page shows you the map layers for the stations around you as the instance hears them: APRS stations, activity spots and MeshCom nodes. It is for operators; the switches are under Search & filter → Live layers, and the browser remembers them.

Live stations and spots

Switch on Live stations to see APRS stations on the map as they are heard. Moving stations show a heading arrow. Tap a station for its page: symbol, speed and course, altitude, recent track, weather and its raw packets. Signed in, + Add to my stations puts it in your stations; a station already there shows In your stations, and the page says when another operator registered it. The button shows only for a station under a verified callsign on your account; for any other station the page says why it can't be added.

Activity spots (off by default) shows live POTA and SOTA activations, and DX-cluster, RBN and PSKReporter spots, when the instance's sysop enables spots. Filter them by Band, Mode and Source. With a rig connected (CAT rig control), a spot's card offers Tune rig to … MHz.

MeshCom on the map

When the instance runs a MeshCom node, MeshCom (on by default) marks MeshCom stations with a small M. The map shows what the instance's own nodes heard, never the whole network:

  • Heard directly: the node received the station over LoRa.
  • Heard through a relay: another node repeated it on the way.
  • Via the MeshCom server: the node got it from the MeshCom server, not over the air here. The pin has a dashed outline.

Stations that reach APRS-IS through a LoRa-APRS IGate show as ordinary APRS stations.

Open a MeshCom station for how it was last heard, its device and firmware, its battery and signal, and a link to its page on MeshMap. When its latest message named relays (its via list), the panel shows Sent via relays …: the sender limited forwarding to those nodes. That is its plan, not the path the message took. A relaying node replaces the list with its own, so the panel takes it only from a message no node relayed. Visitors see the battery and signal as high / medium / low and strong / usable / weak. Signed in, you see the battery percentage and the signal as RSSI (strength) and SNR (signal-to-noise ratio).

MeshCom links (off by default; offered once MeshCom is on) draws the links the instance's nodes heard in the last 24 hours. A solid line is a direct hearing, a dashed line is one leg of a relay path. A line is wider for a stronger signal and fainter the older it is. Click a line for both ends and the signal. For the whole network, Open MeshMap under the switches leads to MeshMap, the network-wide map by ICSSW and ÖVSV.

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