APRS Emergency Detector
While working towards my marine LRC, SRC, and UBI radio licenses, I learned a lot about GMDSS and how it can be used for automated emergency signal communication. Since APRS is capable of sending out messages with a specific message type (e.g. ‘Emergency’), the idea was born to write a bot which constantly listens to APRS-IS and reports such messages whenever they occur.
The program supports a variety of messenger targets (via Apprise) and is also capable of providing both full-length location messages as well as abbreviated messages that are compatible with services such as APRS.