APRS Client Usage Graphs

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APRS Users Versus Time. The left edge of each graph is 2004/12/16. The right edge of each should be the current date/time. Each graph updates at the same time, about once per hour. Note that this is a new script, might have bugs, and it may stop ever once in a while due to the remote APRS server losing the connection. A timestamp link here shows the time that the most recent set of data was collected. Graphcs get updated at 30 minutes past each hour.

The intent with these graphs is to show the number of users for each client program on a long-term basis. Over time these graphs may turn out to be useful. Bezier smoothing has been applied to all of these graphs to smooth them out, getting rid of the a lot of the "noise" that was obscuring the trends. The beginning and end of each graph don't have the same quantity of points (for smoothing purposes) as the middle of the graph, therefore you'll see wilder excursions at each end.



Linear scale, top 10 client programs. Here it is hard to differentiate between the programs with less than 200 active users, but it shows the lead that UI-View has compared to the other programs.
Graph 10 Clients



Log scale, top 10 client programs. Here it is easier to differentiate between the programs, but the log scale is not what most people are used to. Note also that we can't represent 0 on the Y-scale, so clients that are between 0 and 1 users won't show on this graph.
Graph 10 Clients



Linear scale, UI-View.
Graph UI-View



Linear scale, WinAPRS.
Graph WinAPRS



Linear scale, Xastir.
Graph Xastir



Linear scale, APRS+SA.
Graph APRS-SA



Linear scale, DosAPRS.
Graph DosAPRS



Linear scale, MacAPRS.
Graph MacAPRS



Linear scale, four of the client programs at the lower end of the above graphs.
Graph Lower Four Clients



Linear scale, digipeater programs/firmware and an igate program.
Graph Digi Programs/Firmware



Linear scale, network nodes (digipeaters, etc).
Graph Network-Connected Clients



Linear scale, trackers. Note that these graphs are not necessarily independent: The TinyTrak graph contains numbers from the "Other Mic-E" and "Generic NMEA Tracker" graphs for instance.
Graph Trackers



Linear scale, experimental software.
Graph Experimental Software



Linear scale, "Other" clients/trackers. These are packets from stations which weren't caught in any of the previous parsing. These are mostly weather stations but lots of status and other types of packets too. Citizen's Weather stations were removed from this data on 11/20/2007 so you'll see a sharp drop at that point.
Graph Other Clients/Trackers



Linear scale, Stations transmitting on TCP and RF. I started collecting this data on 11/20/2007.
Graph Clients/Trackers on RF



WE7U's Web Pages : APRS/Map/GPS links that may be of interest.