I'm starting to see stations on the new 30-meters APRS-over-VARA channel already.
I've setup a temporary second radio/computer setup to monitor and igate the new channel? on _*10.148.200 MHz USB*_ "dial frequency" until the main igate switches over on Jan 1st, 2025.
The setup is my TS-2000, an Acer 11.8" "netbook" mini-laptop and a SignaLink USB interface connected to a 40' tuner-fed vertical.
The screencap below shows UIview and VARA running as of 10:50 AM US Eastern Time (15:50 UTC) on 5 Dec 2024.?? Note the narrowed noise bandwidth in the VARA waterfall.? I have set the DSP variable IF of the TS-2000 to 900 Hz - wide enough to pass both the APRS-over-VARA channel and the classic packet APRS channel just below the VARA channel.
??? In this cap, a classic 300-baud AX.25 packet APRS transmission has just been made just below the VARA channel.
About 4 hours earlier this morning, I was seeing G4HYG at the tip of the UK in the far upper-right of this screen.
[Once the switch-over to the new channel becomes complete on Jan 1st, you will be seeing this map on my main 30M VARA APRS webserver.? I suspect that due to VARA's *--VASTLY--* superior performance compared to classic AX.25 packet, we will be seeing far more stations from the other side of the Atlantic.
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