Re: One last try before I literally shoot my pi 3
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VARA is a software TNC (there's an HF and a VHF version) which has throughput similar to Pactor 3 at a fraction of the cost. It's the most used mode on Winlink these days and also is what the popular keyboard to keyboard VarAC program uses.
Buster is a now a very old OS (2019)--after Buster was Bullseye and? then came Bookworm. This group belongs to "that guy", Jason KM4ACK and is primarily focused on his 73 Linux (formerly Build-A-Pi) program that downloads, compiles, installs, and updates a bunch of ham apps for the Pi.? AFAIK, there's nothing in 73 Linux related to Allstar and acting as a repeater controller. I have zero knowledge about Allstar. I do have a couple of Pi Zeros that run Pi-Star for DMR hotspots, though.
God I appreciate your guys input on this topic.?
I have tried and failed many times with this pi 3.?
originally got it to run a hotspot thing and either the hotspot or the pi was bad, I blamed the hotspot got a refund.?
got mad threw it in a corner.? Now I own a few repeaters and my area is a dead zone with activity so wanted to get it online somehow. The Allstate link method was an idea but that turned into a cluster of massive calamity due to the lack of documentation on how to physically connect the darn thing.?
I have owned a wires x box for years and just today ?26 January 2025 I heard a voice come through the other side. It¡¯s like finding out ghost are real.?
turns out I did it wrong and got a bunch of angry emails but no one said what was wrong.?
I would love to run a laptop but everything I see seems to be based off these cheap little pi devices.
At this point I am seriously biased against them and would rather not use the thing.?
now I am ignorantly to the operating system but what is the vara and buster. I seen the 73 Linux and I watched the video of the guy that claims to have made it and it seems that is pi based also.?
from where I sit it seems like all the stuff to use all star and the like is based on this device that at some point may honestly be nailed to a tree?
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Brian Dale