Introduction - CG Antenna GW-1000 User Manual

1. Introduction

GW-1000 has features of Digipeater, iGate, APRS data monitoring &
Weather station report. In the future, it could extend to Telemetry by
firmware upgrading.
It has Bluetooth capability.
1.1. Digipeater
GW-1000 supports APRS packet repeat which is called Digipeater. It
reads APRS data from RF transceiver, repacks it and send out via RF
transceiver
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1.2. iGate
It supports RF-IS and IS-RF both way data relay.
RF-IS, The APRS data from RF will be relayed to APRS IS network. So
people can check these data on the internet. E.g arps.fi
IS-RF, the GW-1000 could read the APRS data which IS server sent to it
and relay to RF.
1.3. Weather station report
Currently 2 kinds of weather stations are supported.
1, Peetbros weather station in 'Complete record mode'
2, CG Antenna WX-01 simple weather station. It could detect
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temperature, humidity & air pressure. Possible to connect to 3 party
anemometer & rain gauge.
1.4. TNC
GW-1000 has an embedded KISS TNC. The speed is 1200 baud rate. It
supports KISS control protocol. Using AFSK to modulate & de-modulate
the signal. With extra Bluetooth installed, it could be used as a standalone
APRS KISS TNC.
1.5 Bluetooth(Optional)
With the Bluetooth module installed, the Bluetooth indicator will blink. If
it is paired with Bluetooth terminal (such as computer, tablet or smart
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