Articles

Communications

• The "P-A-C-E" Plan
• Adding a Network GPS to WinTAK & ATAK for GPS Denied Environments
• Situational Awareness for an open-ocean Boat Race
• On Bandwidth & Throughput
• Communications Techniques in Bosch Season 5
• PodSwapping
• Secure VoIP with Baresip

Research & Reports

• C-UAS using COTS: Building an OpenWRT Remote ID Receiver
• ATAK & Hurricane / Tropical Storm Kay 2022 [TLP:GREEN]. Email to request access.
• EMS Situational Awareness at SF Outside Lands 2022 [TLP:GREEN]. Email to request access.
• NPS JIFX 21-4 Experiment Reports
• Situational Awareness at the San Francisco Marathon 2021
• Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption & Earth's ionosphere, see walk-through video
• Blue Angels Flyover Detection Using Sound
• San Francisco Pride 2013 Emergency Medical Response Statistics

Amateur (Ham) Radio

• APRS Of Things
• Drone APRS

General

• Using a Custom CA on Android
• Force A Remote Host To Clear Its ARP Cache
• Manually Detecting Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU)
• Media Veganism
• So You Want To Be A Superhero?
• San Francisco Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)

Videos

ATAK for EMS Operations

An overview of using ATAK for EMS special event operations, including CAD integration, blue force tracking & AVL.

Getting Population & Density using EPA EJ Tool

Using EPA's tool to get population data for a given area based on polygon and other drawn boundaries.

ATAK Map Tiles from Special Event PDF Maps

Creating map tiles from manually geo-referenced PDFs and PNGs.

Node-RED TAK on Windows

Installing and using the Node-RED TAK nodes under Windows.

More at my Youtube Channel @W2GMD.

Projects

TAK: Team Awareness Kit

The TAK Product ecosystem includes ATAK, WinTAK, TAK Server, iTAK, et al. For more information on the TAK please visit the TAK Product Center

PyTAK (Python)

Python Team Awareness Kit, a Python Module for sending & receiving TAK data. Works on Windows, Linux & Raspberry Pi.

Fused Sidecar (Kotlin)

A Fused Location Provider for ATAK, see walk-through video.

COTProxy (Django)

COTProxy is a TAK data transformation proxy. See walk-through video.

Node-RED TAK (Node.js)

Node-RED Nodes for sending & receiving TAK data. See walk-through video.

ADSBCOT (Python)

Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) to TAK Gateway. Display Aircraft in TAK.

AISCOT (Python)

Automatic Identification System (AIS) to TAK Gateway. Display Ships in TAK.

APRSCOT (Python)

Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) to TAK Gateway. Display Ham Radio in TAK.

INRCOT (Python)

Garmin inReach to Cursor on Target Gateway.

More projects on GitHub.