One message from a shelter coordinator on chatTAK reaches a Meshtastic node via loraTAK and a ham on an HT via digiTAK — plus every ATAK/WinTAK. One chat box, the whole mixed net hears it. #disaster #EmComm
xtak.ai/products/chatTAK.html Marathon aid stations, volunteers with just phones — no ATAK, no ham license. chatTAK gives them browser TAK GeoChat: All Chat, teams, DMs. Byte-identical to ATAK. Anyone with a phone joins. #eventmedical #TAK
xtak.ai/products/chatTAK.html You don't need a TAK Server to run a coordinated op. baseTAK talks to ATAK/WinTAK/iTAK on your LAN — map, GeoChat, files, offline tiles, in a browser. Need WAN? digiTAK over RF or netTAK over mesh. #TAK #volunteer
xtak.ai/products/baseTAK.html Coastal ops, cluttered map. baseTAK's filter is source-aware: with sdrTAK show only AIS ships or helos; with digiTAK only weather stations. Declutter air, surface, APRS from one control. #maritime #AIS
xtak.ai/products/baseTAK.html Real networks drop packets. baseTAK broadcasts each new marker 3x at 30s, then re-broadcasts by COT type — evac zones often, static rarely. Missed the first emit? You get caught up. #CERT #TAK
xtak.ai/products/baseTAK.html The planner built staging areas and hazard zones in a KML yesterday. baseTAK imports KML/GPX/KMZ with symbology intact — they hit the live map exactly as drawn, shared to every ATAK on the LAN. #incident #GIS
xtak.ai/products/baseTAK.html Retire the legacy APRS app. digiTAK renders every APRS symbol as a proper TAK icon — digi, weather, ambulance, boat, NWS — on a modern pan-zoom-search map. The richest APRS picture on any client. #APRS #hamradio
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xtak.ai/products/digiTAK.html IC needs a ham shadowing a shelter, miles out, no cell. From any TAK client she DMs his callsign — digiTAK puts it on RF, it lands on his radio, his reply hits TAK chat. A guy with just an HT. #EmComm #APRS
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xtak.ai/products/digiTAK.html Flood response. A volunteer with just an APRS HT rolls up — no TAK app. digiTAK pushes TAK positions out as APRS objects: he sees the team on his radio, his callsign hits every ATAK. #auxcomm #hamradio
xtak.ai/products/digiTAK.html No pre-mission downloads. Each xTAK node runs an mbtileserver — point ATAK/WinTAK at it and pull maps straight off the node. Stream live or sync for offline. The node is the map server. #overland #offlinemaps
xtak.ai The architecture that decodes ADS-B handles any SoapySDR stream. sdrTAK's write-once decoder plugins run on any supported radio — add a signal the suite's never seen, render it as TAK contacts. #SDR #hamradio
xtak.ai/products/sdrTAK.html New antenna, weak decodes. sdrTAK's adminTAK panel shows live signal meters and a gain slider in your phone browser. Nudge the gain, watch the aircraft count climb. Tune by eye at the mast. #SDR #ADSB
xtak.ai/products/sdrTAK.html sdrTAK doesn't drop generic dots. 14 ADS-B emitter categories map to real 2525 symbology — airliners look like airliners, the medevac helo like a helo. A $30 dongle, a real air picture. #ADSB #avgeek
xtak.ai/products/sdrTAK.html Backcountry strip. A second RTL-SDR lets sdrTAK decode UAT 978 alongside ADS-B 1090 — that Cub with no Mode-S shows up as a native TAK contact, right icon and all. See the little guys. #aviation #ADSB
xtak.ai/products/sdrTAK.html Drop loraTAK on a netTAK mesh and every node becomes a Meshtastic gateway — no LAN. The basecamp ingests LoRa anywhere a netTAK can hear it. HaLow backbone, LoRa leaves, one map. #offgrid #mesh
xtak.ai/products/loraTAK.html IC sends a task to a field team's mesh radio and needs to know it landed. loraTAK shows real delivery checkmarks when the LoRa node confirms over the air. No 'did you copy?' loop. #wildland #LoRa
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xtak.ai/products/loraTAK.html She finds boot prints, thumbs a message on her $40 Meshtastic. It lands in base's TAK chat; IC's reply comes back to her mesh screen. DMs both ways, by name. The cheapest radio is a full partner. #SAR #Meshtastic
xtak.ai Miles of fence, no cell. A netTAK Voice node = hardware push-to-talk straight into ATAK's voice clients. One channel over the mesh, no server, no repeater. Voice and map on the same wire. #ranch #PTT
xtak.ai/products/netTAK.html Race-day medical net, 20 miles of course. No special radios — every medic joins the netTAK 2.4GHz Wi-Fi on their own phone and opens ATAK. Self-forming mesh on the backend; bring your own screen. #eventmedical #TAK
xtak.ai/products/netTAK.html Dial in one netTAK on the trail — DNS, GPS, the works — then one-click rebuild stamps that exact config into a fresh image. Clone the node that already works; every rig gets a proven build. #overland #TAK
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xtak.ai/products/netTAK.html Six netTAK nodes across an EOC. Need a new DHCP reservation? Edit it once on the nearest node's browser admin — it propagates to every node. Change it anywhere, it's true everywhere. #EmComm #ARES
xtak.ai/products/netTAK.html Shelter op, 2am. Pull a netTAK from a Pelican case, click it on — no cable, no login. Flash, boot, mesh: it joins on its own. Add a node mid-op and coverage grows with the crew. #disaster #TAK
xtak.ai/products/netTAK.html Two canyons, no cell. A netTAK on each ridge + a high-gain Yagi = a ~16 km HaLow link ridge-to-ridge, one LAN across both fire camps. An antenna swap turns a dead zone into backhaul. #wildland #HaLow
xtak.ai/products/netTAK.html A relay node dies mid-search on a scree slope — nobody notices. netTAK's batman-adv mesh re-routes in seconds; the TAK picture never blinks. Self-healing is the failure you never feel. #SAR #mesh
xtak.ai/products/netTAK.html One exercise, every band in the room. netTAK mesh carries the field teams, digiTAK brings APRS, sdrTAK the aircraft, baseTAK serves the map to every screen. Different radios and agencies, one TAK picture — not another network to buy, just the one that unifies
xtak.ai/products/netTAK.html Two miles of timber between them, no cell. Old way: hope and a meetup time. Now each carries a LoRa handheld and loraTAK puts both on the same TAK map — live positions, a pin on the blood trail, a 'heading back' that arrives. Miles of ridge, no towers, nobody
xtak.ai/products/loraTAK.html The commander moves the staging point on his laptop. Before the coffee's down, it's moved on every screen at the post. baseTAK is the TAK server for the whole incident — one shared picture, real time. Draw it once, everyone sees it. No 'which version is
xtak.ai/products/baseTAK.html A CERT callout pulls in whoever shows — some on ATAK, some WinTAK, one on iTAK. Doesn't matter. One netTAK node stands up the net and every client joins: same map, same team, no cell, no server. The team is the network, and it grows with whoever shows up. #CERT
xtak.ai/products/netTAK.html Day four at altitude, and comms usually die first. Not here — the netTAK node runs off a UPS board + 10,000 mAh cell, topped by a folding panel, battery state in the admin panel. The camp's map and chat stay up for days off one node. The mountain doesn't get
xtak.ai/products/netTAK.html The far tank runs dry every few weeks and nobody knows until the cattle do. Now a cheap Meshtastic sensor chirps its level over LoRa, and loraTAK lands it on the ranch TAK map — tank, gate, weather, live. He checks a tablet at the fence, not the fence line.
xtak.ai/products/loraTAK.html Three counties, three TAK nets, one storm crossing all of them. digiTAK bridges them over RF — N-way federation. A shelter marker dropped in one county appears on the other two's maps, no internet between them. Regional net control sees the whole front on one
xtak.ai/products/digiTAK.html A small-boat SAR crew works a fogged-in harbor. Radar's cluttered, VHF is noise. On the laptop, every AIS vessel for miles is a labeled contact on the TAK map — including the drifting sailboat they were called for. sdrTAK, receive-only, off a $30 SDR. Fog
xtak.ai/products/sdrTAK.html 0300 call, the search area is a valley nobody cached. Doesn't matter — baseTAK already holds the imagery. Every ATAK, WinTAK and phone at the command post pulls high-res maps off the box on the tailgate. No hunting for signal. The map was ready first. #SAR
xtak.ai/products/baseTAK.html Three days past the last bar of signal, the team still has a map and each other. One netTAK node is a Wi-Fi AP + offline TAK server — every phone joins, pulls the pre-loaded topo, shares position over the local net. No mesh radio, no internet. One box holds the
xtak.ai/products/netTAK.html The shelter runs off one laptop and nobody has ATAK. Doesn't matter. baseTAK serves the whole map to a browser tab — the Red Cross lead, the county liaison, the ham in the corner all see each other and drop markers. No install, no accounts. Open a tab, you're
xtak.ai/products/baseTAK.html County ARES spins up. Instead of a legacy APRS terminal, net control runs it from the map — every check-in a station icon in WinTAK, messages threaded, positions live. Volunteers who only know ATAK are useful in minutes. Same APRS on the air, now speaking TAK. #ARES #APRS
xtak.ai A quiet summit, no bars for miles. He plugs an RTL-SDR into the laptop and the sky fills in — airliner, medevac, a lone Cessna — each a live contact on his TAK map. Nothing transmitted, nothing online. A $30 dongle turning thin air into a picture. #hamradio #rtlsdr #ADSB
xtak.ai Power's out, family spread across 600 acres. Dad's on the fence with a $30 Meshtastic handheld; the house runs ATAK. 'Gate's down, cattle loose' lands on the map as a pin — his exact spot. A reply comes straight back to his handheld. loraTAK bridges both ways.
xtak.ai/products/loraTAK.html Hour two of the grid search, the valley eats the handhelds. But every searcher carries a netTAK node, each relaying the next. Drop into a ravine and your position still flows back to base — the mesh reroutes around any node that drops. The picture never breaks.
xtak.ai/products/netTAK.html The repeater can't reach the canyon floor, so the crews stop using it. Each boss keys up on their netTAK node — push-to-talk across their own mesh, node to node, into the other crew's ears and the IC's ATAK voice. No repeater, no cell. Just talk. #wildland
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xtak.ai xTAK doesn't make you buy into a new radio ecosystem. It takes the Meshtastic, APRS & SDR gear you already run and unifies it on one TAK map — alongside ATAK/WinTAK.
xtak.ai baseTAK ships a built-in map server: pre-load offline imagery once, and every ATAK/WinTAK/iTAK on your network pulls maps straight from it. No scramble to cache before an op.
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