Observed arrival · 2026-09-28

beakon-tak: ATAK over HF radio

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Editorial interest 72/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

An open-source project describing a gateway for carrying ATAK location and messaging data over high-frequency and other off-grid radio links.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-28 issue.

For: ATAK users building off-grid HF telemetry links
Worth noticing: The described chain pairs UDP multicast on port 6969 with LZ4 compression, Reed-Solomon framing, ARDOP, and hardware RTS push-to-talk.

Field notes

The described setup routes audio through PulseAudio, PipeWire, or ALSA and uses a serial RTS line for radio push-to-talk. The page also distinguishes full transceiver stations from silent receive-only nodes built around RTL-SDR hardware. Its hardware testing statement is self-reported, and the extracted homepage provides no repository or download link to inspect.

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