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Re: VARA in Dec2023 on a Pi

 

Just wanted to post here that I've been working with botspot?& gman to merge VARA HF into pi-apps officially.
This installation should be more automatic now just by installing pi-apps and choosing VARA HF from the "Engineering" apps menu.
To update VARA HF, just uninstall and reinstall from pi-apps.


On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 7:41?PM dtmenges@... via <dtmenges=[email protected]> wrote:

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Just installed Wine and VARA HF following Kelly's procedures in /g/KM4ACK-Pi/message/12128. I installed it on a fresh Pi4B running 32-bit Bookworm.

Everything appeared to go well. Haven't put it on a radio yet but don't anticipate any trouble. I've been running VARA HF on Window for a year now. I bound Winlink Express on Windows to the instance of VARA HF on the Pi and it would try to transmitt which is a good sign.

I'm far from an expert on Linux but I did find a couple of rough spots that would give a newbie some trouble. I assumed the instruction to download all was intended to download the zip files which must be unzipped. In addition, those files have spaces in the file names which gives Linux fits. I started typing and then used a Tab character to autocomplete the file name with the slashes to handle the spaces.

That's my two cents.

Thanks, Kelly. It worked great.

Dave
WB9TEN
Re: vara install

 

Just wanted to post here that I've been working with botspot?& gman to merge VARA HF into pi-apps officially.
This installation should be more automatic now just by installing pi-apps and choosing VARA HF from the "Engineering" apps menu.
I'll work on fixing my Winelink script too, though I don't have a solid ETA on that.

On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 9:30?AM Wally Tuck via <bethere549=[email protected]> wrote:
I don't know if this helps but VARA works well on my 64bit windows system working with winlink.


On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 7:47 AM, Dreuge
<Dreuge@...> wrote:
Please correct me if I am wrong, but since VARA is only available as a 32bit application, this procedure only works for 32bit RaspberryOS systems. ? ?

I did try installing on a 64bit Bookworm, but nothing happened when I tried running VARA.? In running directly from a terminal (via "wine VARA.exe" in "~/.wine/drive_c/VARA/"), I get a bunch of errors which do look like ?32bit/64bit issues002c:
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?err:virtual:map_fixed_area out of memory for 0x6fffffcd0000-0x6ffffffef000002c:
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?err:virtual:try_map_free_area mmap() error Cannot allocate memory, range 0x7fffffcd0000-0x7ffffffef000, unix_prot 0x7.
Re: Linux73 install failed

 

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ARDOP development has been forked to ardopcf, if it helps,

-craig
KM6LYW



On 7/25/24 09:46, Dave Christensen wrote:

My understanding is that ARDOP is having a lot of issues with the current release.? I am able to get the modem running but no PTT is getting to the radio.? For now, I am pressing pause on ARDOP
Re: Linux73 install failed

 

My understanding is that ARDOP is having a lot of issues with the current release.? I am able to get the modem running but no PTT is getting to the radio.? For now, I am pressing pause on ARDOP
Re: Linux73 install failed

 

Thanks a lot for the advice. It worked for me.?
vy 73 de Rolf, DL8BAG
Re: Toughbook FZ-M1

 

I can't see why not. My CF 19 works but has issues with FLrig and Pat Winlink, JS8call & FT 8 talking. GPS if you have the driver is not picked up. I use a USB GPS from Amazon, or the GPS in the IC 705. I made my dual boot.?

FLrig changes frequencies, it will not TX for your info. My Win 10 side doesn't key (TX) the radio using JS8call or FT 8 using Flrig. However, if I use VaraAC Flrig will TX. I don't understand why it works for FLDIGI and VaraAC, but not for the other programs in Linux or Windows.

Besides you can use a Bluetooth Keyboard if you get tired of using the plastic pen.

73


Don Poaps
New Westminster, BC
VA7DGP DATA
VA7QU ? VOICE


Winlink:?va7dgp@...
Subject://wl2k ? ? ? ? ?

ALLSTAR ?530780
Hamshack Hotline
5971
Mid-Island Phone Mesh
2210
2232

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On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 7:18?AM George Privett via <glprivett=[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
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Has anyone tried 73 Linux with the FZ-M1 Toughbook tablet. It has a 7" screen and I was wondering if the apps like FT8 worked on it. I have an opportunity to get an FZ-M1.
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Thanks
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George VY1GP
Toughbook FZ-M1

 

Hello,
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Has anyone tried 73 Linux with the FZ-M1 Toughbook tablet. It has a 7" screen and I was wondering if the apps like FT8 worked on it. I have an opportunity to get an FZ-M1.
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Thanks
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George VY1GP
Re: Using 73Linux On an Existing RPi OS Install

 

Hey thank you Jason. ?It worked perfectly!
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I really appreciate you providing 73Linux to the amateur radio community.
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73,
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John L.
AA7US
Re: Using 73Linux On an Existing RPi OS Install

 

It should run fine on top of what you already have but I suggest backing up the system before hand just to be safe.
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Using 73Linux On an Existing RPi OS Install

 

Greetings all,
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I have a Rpi 4B with 4GB ram running the 32bit version of Legacy Bullseye downloaded from the Raspberry Foundation website and freshly installed about 6 months ago. ?I've installed and have been using a few ham radio applications from Bullseye's app repository (namely JS8Call and WSJT-X). ?I also downloaded and compiled flrig and fldigi from source.
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Couple of questions:
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1. Is it okay to use 73Linux on my existing system to install and re-install other ham radio applications offered through 73Linux, or do I need to start with a fresh copy of the OS?
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2. If I CAN safely use 73Linux on my existing system, should I first uninstall any existing applications that I want to re-install through 73Linux?
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Thanks in advance,
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John L.
AA7US
Re: 73 Linux Via IC 705 with Toughbook CF 19

 


Don Poaps
New Westminster, BC
VA7DGP DATA
VA7QU ? VOICE

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Winlink:?va7dgp@...
Subject://wl2k ? ? ? ? ?

ALLSTAR ?530780
Hamshack Hotline
5971
Mid-Island Phone Mesh
2210
2232

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?


On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 9:24?AM km4ack via <jason.oleham=[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 11:20 AM, Mike K6GTE wrote:
Just my 2 cents but port 4532 usually indicates that the program is trying to use rigctld and not flrig.
True but in a basic install, Pat Menu uses rigctl piped to FLRIG for rig control so 4532 is correct in this instance.
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Don, I had something weird happen today that's similar to your situation and another user has reported something similar as well. I upgraded to Pat 0.16 on a known good system and lost rig control. Thinking it was a Pat issue, I downgraded back to 0.15.1. Still not working. Turns out that FLRIG had lost comms with the radio. Reset everything and I was back in business. Can you confirm that FLRIG still has control over the radio?
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Re: 73 Linux Via IC 705 with Toughbook CF 19

 

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 11:20 AM, Mike K6GTE wrote:
Just my 2 cents but port 4532 usually indicates that the program is trying to use rigctld and not flrig.
True but in a basic install, Pat Menu uses rigctl piped to FLRIG for rig control so 4532 is correct in this instance.
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Don, I had something weird happen today that's similar to your situation and another user has reported something similar as well. I upgraded to Pat 0.16 on a known good system and lost rig control. Thinking it was a Pat issue, I downgraded back to 0.15.1. Still not working. Turns out that FLRIG had lost comms with the radio. Reset everything and I was back in business. Can you confirm that FLRIG still has control over the radio?
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Re: 73 Linux Via IC 705 with Toughbook CF 19

Mike K6GTE
 

Just my 2 cents but port 4532 usually indicates that the program is trying to use rigctld and not flrig.
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Re: 73 Linux Via IC 705 with Toughbook CF 19

 

So much for attempting to use Linux for Winlink Wednesday on Pat Winlink.

2024/07/17 06:28:12 Unable to get frequency from rig my-rig: dial tcp : connect: connection refused.
2024/07/17 06:28:12 Starting HTTP service (http://127.0.0.1:8080)...
2024/07/17 09:03:57 QSY failed: unable to get rig frequency: dial tcp : connect: connection refused
2024/07/17 09:03:58 QSY failed: unable to get rig frequency: dial tcp : connect: connection refused
2024/07/17 09:04:07 Connecting to VA7DEP-10 (ax25+linux)...
2024/07/17 09:04:52 Unable to establish connection to remote: Dial timeout

73

Don Poaps
New Westminster, BC
VA7DGP DATA
VA7QU ? VOICE


Winlink:?va7dgp@...
Subject://wl2k ? ? ? ? ?

ALLSTAR ?530780
Hamshack Hotline
5971
Mid-Island Phone Mesh
2210
2232

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 6:38?AM Don Poaps via <va7dgp=[email protected]> wrote:
Radio Apps:

Kissatch Active
Direwolf Active

Digital Apps:

Flrig Active
Pat Active

The Gui showing refused in the black terminal.

73
Don Poaps
New Westminster, BC
VA7DGP DATA
VA7QU ? VOICE


Winlink:?va7dgp@...
Subject://wl2k ? ? ? ? ?

ALLSTAR ?530780
Hamshack Hotline
5971
Mid-Island Phone Mesh
2210
2232

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?


On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 5:54?AM km4ack via <jason.oleham=[email protected]> wrote:
Does rig control go green in Conky when you start the modem?
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direwolf audio broken pipe

 

I am curious if anyone else noticed this problem.
I run a BPQ packet BBS on a pi 5. I use direwolf as the TNC. About once or twice a day direwolf would bomb with audio broken pipe and would mention it might be caused by the cpu being too slow. It was hard to catch it doing this and the logs didn't give me much help. However this morning i was at the terminal when this happened and top showed wayfire at more than 50% CPU so i think wayland is the culprit. I set raspi-config to boot into console only mode and am running direwolf and BPQ using screen. I will watch a few days to see if this fixed the problem but just curious if anyone else has seen this. Google wasn't much help with the issue.
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Re: 73 Linux Via IC 705 with Toughbook CF 19

 

Radio Apps:

Kissatch Active
Direwolf Active

Digital Apps:

Flrig Active
Pat Active

The Gui showing refused in the black terminal.

73
Don Poaps
New Westminster, BC
VA7DGP DATA
VA7QU ? VOICE


Winlink:?va7dgp@...
Subject://wl2k ? ? ? ? ?

ALLSTAR ?530780
Hamshack Hotline
5971
Mid-Island Phone Mesh
2210
2232

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?


On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 5:54?AM km4ack via <jason.oleham=[email protected]> wrote:
Does rig control go green in Conky when you start the modem?
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Re: 73 Linux Via IC 705 with Toughbook CF 19

 

Does rig control go green in Conky when you start the modem?
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Re: 73 Linux Via IC 705 with Toughbook CF 19

 

I did remove the #
PTT RIG 4 localhost:12345

Don Poaps
New Westminster, BC
VA7DGP DATA
VA7QU ? VOICE


Winlink:?va7dgp@...
Subject://wl2k ? ? ? ? ?

ALLSTAR ?530780
Hamshack Hotline
5971
Mid-Island Phone Mesh
2210
2232

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
73 Linux Via IC 705 with Toughbook CF 19

 

In the past, I have not had any issues loading BAP or 73 Linux. I can not get Pat to change VFO etc.

},
? "listen": [],
? "hamlib_rigs": {
? ? "my-rig": {
? ? ? "address": "",
? ? ? "network": "TCP"

2024/07/16 15:04:33 Unable to get frequency from rig my-rig: dial tcp : connect: connection refused.
2024/07/16 15:04:33 Starting HTTP service (http://127.0.0.1:8080)...

#PTT COM1 RTS
#PTT COM1 RTS -DTR
#PTT /dev/ttyUSB0 RTS
#Uncomment line below for PTT with CAT through FLRIG
#PTT RIG 4 localhost:12345
#PTT /dev/ttyUSB0 RTS -DTR
#Uncomment line below for PTT with CAT through FLRIG

The FLrig Config > client > KMLRPS shows

Not sure where to go from here

73


Flrig has

Don Poaps
New Westminster, BC
VA7DGP DATA
VA7QU ? VOICE


Winlink:?va7dgp@...
Subject://wl2k ? ? ? ? ?

ALLSTAR ?530780
Hamshack Hotline
5971
Mid-Island Phone Mesh
2210
2232

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Screenshot 2024-07-16 at 15-59-04 Pat - Mailbox.png

Re: Minimum packages (73linux) to run PAT-Winlink

 

Assuming x86 platform, the following will give you packet, VARA FM, and VARA HF
Pat
Pat Menu
Direwolf
AX25
VARA
VARA HF

If you want to use position reports and/or gps forms, also install:
GPS
GPS Update Tool

Also, you didn't mention rig control but if you need it, install FLRIG and hamlib (rigctl)

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