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This is me just starting to try and figure things out. I got a Surface Pro 4 for Christmas with the goal of using it along with my radios while portable. I like learning new things so I decided to try and write an APRS application using the Universal Windows Platform that would look nice on the Surface Pro or my desktop...maybe even Xbox One I'm not sure.

As of now I've just been able to get connected to the APRS-IS server rotate.aprs.net and had it stream the APRS feed. I've left it running for a couple of minutes with the full feed and it has added over 2,000 points to the worldwide map without any crashing however they are all the same basic balloon icon. Based on that I think that this would be a viable solution for mobile HF APRS where it would probably be years before I saw that many points.

I'm not looking to create a full featured APRS application, just something basic right now to display positions.

I'm starting with the APRS parser from https://sourceforge.net/projects/aprsparser/