TAK on the air.
VHF for the region.
HF for the continent.

Federate N sites into one TAK picture over RF

In bridge mode, multiple digiTAK gateways form a federated mesh over RF or APRS-IS. Markers placed in ATAK at site A appear in WinTAK at site B with full TAK fidelity — team color, role, COT type, custom icons all preserved.

• Add a digipeater between sites to extend RF reach via existing APRS infrastructure.
• Add another digiTAK to grow the operating area.
• Sibling-gateway coexistence — any number of digiTAKs can share an RF channel without re-emitting or re-digipeating each other's traffic. (Standard channel collisions still apply — half-duplex RF is half-duplex RF.)
• Open wire spec — third-party gateways can interoperate.

digiTAK + baseTAK: the richest APRS map on any modern client

digiTAK + baseTAK is the richest APRS picture on any modern map. Every APRS station renders with its proper APRS icon — not a generic dot — and you can filter the map down to just the device type you care about with a click.

• Full APRS icon set on the map — every primary and alternate APRS symbol renders as a proper TAK icon. Digi, mobile, weather, ambulance, fire engine, boat, aircraft, NWS object — every device type you'd expect, on a modern pan-zoom-search map.
• Filter by APRS device type — baseTAK's map filter isolates the symbols you care about. Show only weather stations during a SKYWARN net, only mobile trackers during a race, only digipeaters during a band test, only NWS bulletins during severe weather.
• DM a callsign from any TAK client; the message lands on RF or APRS-IS.
• Weather stations and NWS bulletins appear as native TAK overlays.
• Reach amplified by APRS digipeaters — your TAK network's reach becomes whatever the global volunteer digipeater infrastructure can carry, often dozens or hundreds of miles beyond your own line of sight.

Bring APRS-only hams into the operation — no app, no new gear

An operator with nothing more than an APRS-capable radio participates fully in the TAK operation. They see the picture, they're seen, and they chat — all over APRS, no TAK client required. No app. No new gear. No new training.

• They appear on TAK clients as native TAK contacts — position on the IC's WinTAK, bulletins in TAK chat, callsign attribution preserved end-to-end.
• They see the TAK operation on their APRS gear — TAK users' positions are broadcast out to APRS as standard objects, so the ham with just a handheld and an APRS map display sees the team on their screen, no TAK install.
• They chat across the bridge — an APRS message addressed to a TAK callsign lands in TAK chat. The IC's reply comes back to the ham's APRS rig. Bulletins, NWS alerts, group messages — all reach across.
• And when loraTAK is on the network, an APRS user can DM a Meshtastic LoRa user just as easily — digiTAK and loraTAK are full mesh partners on the same TAK chat thread. A ham with an HT can message a SAR volunteer with a $40 mesh radio. Both speak standard TAK on the wire; no integration to configure.
• The auxcomm net stops being parallel infrastructure — APRS hams aren't a separate radio room hanging off the side of the op; they're first-class participants on the same shared picture as the ATAK / WinTAK clients.
• For EmComm activations, SAR call-outs, and ad-hoc events: volunteers show up with the rig they already own, beacon their callsign, and they're on the operation.

Bridge WinTAK islands across the continent on HF

Hook a 2-meter rig to digiTAK and you reach the next county over VHF. Hook an HF rig to the same digiTAK and you reach the next state — or country — over the ionosphere. Both transports run simultaneously.

• Multi-transport, one box — APRS-IS, VHF/UHF, and HF all from a single digiTAK.
• HF as the continental backbone — positions and chat across hundreds to thousands of miles.
• Binary compression codec — ~20 bytes per position update, designed to fit the band.
• WinTAK islands stop being islands. State EOC sees state EOC. ARES district sees ARES region.

HF transport is in active development — see Status below.

Retire your legacy APRS app — any TAK client is the UI now

For ham operators tired of legacy APRS software — digiTAK is the modern replacement. The user interface is any TAK client: ATAK, WinTAK, iTAK, or baseTAK in a browser.

• Any TAK client as your APRS UI — modern map providers, click-to-message, fast click paths.
• Connect a USB GPS to the digiTAK and it becomes a mobile APRS tracker.
• Every APRS station as a TAK contact — DM by callsign, bulletins, weather stations, the local APRS net.
• Standard APRS wire format — digiTAK plays nicely with whatever else is already on the net.