APRS Emergency beacon?

[huskyrunnr]

I’m running aprsdroid into Mobilinkd TNC. Still pretty new to all this but I don’t see that this client supports mic-e based emergency beacon. Is this correct and if so, does anyone know of an android client that can send an emergency beacon?

 

[dreadlocks]

Its an open feature request on APRSDroid for mic-e support confirming your findings: https://github.com/ge0rg/aprsdroid/issues/170

APRSDroid is the only client I know of for mobiles thats worth anything.

I found a software bug accidentally triggered a MicE emergency beacon with my WX3in1, about 24h later a guy from local ARES team shows up at my house and informed me I triggered an alert on many people's radios and to check that I was okay.. and I'm in the middle of a City.. dunno how much I'd count on that though out in the middle of BFE for emergency use though, especially paired with a handheld.

 

[huskyrunnr]

Ok,thanks for confirming that. I do run an 80 Watt fill-in DIGI at the truck, but even so, I hear ya. A plb is probably in my future.. lol BFE! Been there many a time.