Comment:	VTARA APRS gateway
Location:	37°13.66' N 80°25.33' W - locator EM97SF94IP - show map 4.2 km North bearing 4° from Merrimac, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States [?] 10.9 km North bearing 354° from Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, United States 42.8 km West bearing 264° from Roanoke, City of Roanoke, Virginia, United States 126.3 km North bearing 353° from Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States
Last position:	2026-02-19 23:19:59 UTC (14h46m ago) 2026-02-19 18:19:59 EST local time at Merrimac, United States [?]
Device:	WB2OSZ: DireWolf
Last path:	K4KDJ-15>APDW16 via TCPIP*,qAC,T2CAEAST
Positions stored:	1
APRS igate – Statistics for 2026-02:
Stations heard directly:	8 on radio path – show map
Last heard a station directly:	2026-02-19 23:29:12 UTC (14h37m ago)
Position packets heard directly:	272 on radio path
Position packets sent to APRS-IS:	283 – show map

Only stations from which a position packet has been heard are shown here. The range statistics show some extra long hops, because some digipeaters do not correctly add themselves to the digipeater path. Please check the raw packets.

This page shows real-time information collected from the Automatic Position Reporting System Internet network (APRS-IS). APRS is used by amateur (ham) radio operators to transmit real-time position information, weather data, telemetry and messages over the radio. A vehicle equipped with a GPS receiver, a VHF transmitter or HF transceiver and a small computer device called a tracker transmits it's location, speed and course in a small data packet, which is then received by a nearby iGate receiving site which forwards the packet on the Internet. Systems connected to the Internet can send information on the APRS-IS without a radio transmitter, or collect and display information transmitted anywhere in the world.