Unlike some other ham radio LoRa APRS projects, this white paper and project aims at deploying LoRa the way it was intended; namely by being frugal about the number of bytes put on air. Doing so, reaps a number of benefits:

• less airtime,
• increased battery life,
• higher chances of good packet reception,
• hence, increased range,
• lower probability of packet collisions,
• therefore, more channel capacity.

The documentation of this project was moved to https://aprs438.readthedocs.io/