*Update 10MARCH2023* Just got word from the developer that the system is no longer SSID specific. So a message to to SSID -7 can be retrieved on a radio running any SSID.
In the 80's we had the W0RLI packet BBS system. You used keyboard AX-25 (radio, TNC and a computer, CPM in my case) and created a message on your local BBS, for a specific call sign, at a specific BBS in the system. The BBSs would forward the message from BBS to BBS, using AX-25 link, often involving several digipeater hops. Then the recipient could pick up the message at the target BBS at his leisure. Everything old is new again.
This is pretty much the same information I was going to share. With the resurgence of packet, whether as APRS or not, reinstating a few BBSs and linking them might not be a bad idea.
Think NA7Q would be willing to share the secret sauce? Thinking for offline purposes when internet is down due to an event natural or otherwise it still might be a good idea to have a local digipeater in the area capable of store and forward.
No. With a mobilinkd TNC or Digirig, you can make most HT's do this. The Yaesu FT5 will also do this since it is an APRS radio as well. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kMTKa4Mi3rE.html
Id love to see some bluetooth from my phone capabilities, type a message, send to radio. Radio APRS out. How cool would that be. And to really kick it up. Radio bluetooths it back to my phone. 😮
It's doable over Bluetooth with Kenwood D75 and Droid but not with iOS without additional components.. Using the mobilinkd TNC you can get it to work over Bluetooth with both Droid and iOS out of the box. APRSdroid or APRS.fi depending on the phone OS
A couple options. Use the apps by themselves or run a virtual machine and put KM4ACK's pi-build on it and run it that way. USB-codecs install on USB connection.
