Versie 4. 0. 283 11072014 setupversie Volledig nieuwe setupversie, waarin een reeks kleinere aanpassingen zijn aangebracht, op basis van wensen van gebruikers. AP5. 10 APRS Angus Ainslies Blog. I recently got my amateur radio certificate and was interested doing some APRS messaging so I purchased a Sainsonic AP5. Its a nice little TNC with GPS, bluetooth and a thermometer. It comes with minimal documentation in 4 languages and no software to configure it. Theres a Yahoo Group that has firmware, configuration software and upgrade software. Its annoying that you need to sign up for a Yahoo account to download the files there. Theres also a Chinese website that has more firmware and some forums the Yahoo site has mined most needed data from there Theres also a good French website that explains how to flash the firmware and has some files needed for windows 7. I found a German site that explains the serial cable pinout. Upgrading the firmware. Standard disclaimer this has worked for me but if it fails and bricks your AP5. Im not responsible. So far I have only gotten this to work on Windows, it will run under Wine but wont connect. On windows XP these files AVRTTupdata. VB6 runtime will be enough. On any newer windows MSCOMM3. OCX and MSSTDFMT. DLL will be required as well. Ive recently installed windows 10 from windows 7. I have now run in to an issue where microsoft Common Controlls mscomctl is not founnd I have registered the. Mscomm32. ocx original dll file, download here. One click to download this file. Repair your system. Make sure the ini file is in the same directory as the AVRTTupdata when you run it as it has the correct setup for the AVR in the AP5. The first time you run AVRTTUpdata it will be in Chinese, select language and put it into English. Use the option comport menu item to chose the correct comport. Dont change any of the other settings. Use the folder icon to load the hex file into the Upgrade tool. Turn off the AP5. Push and hold the power button on the AP5. While still holding the power button push the chip icon and the download will begin. Keep holding the power button until the download completes. Voila your AP5. 10 is now upgraded. Linux Configuration tool. Update This is deprecated use chirp instead as it now supports the AP5. The windows configuration tool is in the archive above. I didnt want to start up a VM each time to change the config so I wrote a simple python tool AP5. Youll need to edit the script to change the comport, callsign and other settings. Mortgage Flyers Templates. Ive licensed it GPL V2 and please send me any improvements you make to the script. To use the script Edit the configuration. Turn the AP5. 10 off. Start the script. Turn the AP5. 10 back on. The script should dump the current settings, update the new settings and then dump the new settings. EDIT Jan was nice enough to reverse engineer a schematic for the AP5.