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First of all, thanks to Steve, WA8LMF, for all his good work making UI-View32 more usable and easier to configure, use etc. I still have a ways to go to be a proficient user but at least I know where to go (Steve's website and groups.io)! Now that I've gotten UI-View32 running, I wanted to get the maps loaded. I have downloaded (but not installed yet) PMAP Server 9, but am stuck I can't find the corresponding maps file to download i.e. "Precision Mapping Streets & Traveler 9.0"... every link that I've found leads to a dead end. So, does anyone know where I can download the installation file for "Precision Mapping Streets and Traveler 9.0"? Thanks Jim W0JPO

[2 Feb 2025] i originally released version 1 of the "WA8LMF TNC Test CD" in 2006, with with a slight update, version 1.1, in 2009. This was an image file that created an audio CD. The disk contains a variety of recordings of packet APRS transmissions to verify/compare the performance of packet TNCs (both hardware and software). Over the past 16 years it has become sort of a de-facto standard for testing/comparing various packet radio receiving systems. In 2009, computer CD systems were plagued with cheap unstable software-based audio decoding (the infamous "AC97" codec) that used system interrupts for timing. The audio sample rate would actually vary, depending on CPU loading and the number of tasks currently running on the computer. On the other hand, AUDIO CD players (even cheap boomboxes and DiscMan portables) used stable crystal-controlled time-bases. In 2009, I chose to produce the disk as an audio CD (not a CD-ROM with .WAV files) to yield more accurate and repeatable tests of TNC performance. The ver 1.1. CD was produced in the "CD-Extra" format that combines CD audio tracks playable on a music CD player -- with a data CD-ROM area accessible with a computer CD/DVD drive. (This hybrid format is sometimes used on modern music CDs to include song lyrics, artist bios, etc on the disk along with the music.) Some users have had problems with recording the BIN/CUE format of the TNC Test image file to physical CDs. (This now-somewhat-obscure disk-image format was required because the more-common .ISO disk image format can't handle the mixed-mode half-music-CD/half-CD-ROM format of the disk.) Today, the "horsepower" of the average computer has increased orders of magnitude since 2009. More importantly, for the last decade or so, most computers have been equipped with the "RealTek HD" audio chips that use an accurate crystal-controlled time-base. As a result, computer-playback of audio files is now very accurate with stable sample rates. I have now re-released the Test CD as a standard CD-ROM in the common .ISO image format. This disk contains the identical test audio tracks, but now stored as lossless FLAC files. The .ISO image file can be used to burn a physical CD. Or the .ISO file can be used as-is, "mounted" as a virtual CD-ROM drive using an used drive letter on your system. Or the FLAC-format audio files could be copied to a flash drive. I have extensively revised the page on my web site for the Test CD . It now includes download links for both the original ver 1.1 audio CD image, and the new ver 2.0 .ISO CD-ROM image. <http://wa8lmf.net/TNCtest/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com Skype: WA8LMF EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band] Home Page: http://wa8lmf.net New 30 Meter APRS-over VARA Frequency As of 1 Jan 2025. Details Here: <http://WA8LMF.net/VARA/NewFrequency.htm> - APRS over VARA -- <http://wa8lmf.net/VARA/APRSoverVARA> "Studio B" Ham Shack on Wheels <http://WA8LMF.net/Aliner> -

Good morning. Our ARES group was exercising APRS group messaging during our recent Blizzard Warning. Most of them are using phone apps (APRSDroid, APRSfi, APRSPro), and I am working on an instructional document for APRS including: - Winlink pending mail notification - SMS texting - Group messaging Are there features beyond these 3 to include? Are there corrections or clarifications to the attachment? I am not being exhaustive (such as instructions for send/receiving WINLINK via APRS). Just trying to get operators to expand their APRS functionality & use, especially considering their limitations for being on phones. I would be interested in reviews of the attachment for accuracy & clarity. Thank you. Joe, KC0NOX

I am interested in finding a relatively recent video resource or simplified "plug and play" recipe for setting up UI-View. I'm a long(ish) term user of SoundModem for Winlink / Pinpoint APRS on VHF. I don't have a VARA license. I have also had some success experimenting with DireWolf. Rig is either FT857 with Signalink or Elecraft KX3 using a simple soundcard dongle for I/O. I have a registered UI-View system with minimal configuration so far. I don't have a deep tech background, AGE 73 (young ? or old? for a Ham - I've lost track). I am fascinated though by basic emergency data comms, since I live in a very small community on an island in coastal BC. Any "leg up" would be gratefully received. Thank you, Kevin VE7KHI

There has been considerable discussion of the relative merits of APRS-over-VARA on 30 meters vs 40 meters recently on several mailing lists. On February 8th, I will be traveling from my home QTH in central Michigan (Meridian Twp east of East Lansing) to Traverse City, MI for the annual Cherryland Amateur Radio Club Swap-N-Shop. This is about a two-hundred mile (360 Km) drive. I plan to conduct a test of 30M vs 40M APRS-over-VARA on this trip. I have TWO HF rigs in the car with separate antennas. One is a Yaesu FT-891 with a mono-band hamstick on a fender split-ball mount, dedicated full-time to 30M HF APRS. The other is a Yaesu FT-857 with an ATAS-120A screwdriver antenna hard-mounted to the trunk lid is used for general operating on bands other than 30M -- usually for my "Mobile SSTV LiveCAM" on 15 or 10 meters. For this trip, I will put the 857 and ATAS-120 on 40 meters APRS. I will run two instances of UIview, two instances of the VARA-HF modem, and two interfaces on the mobile laptop, one for 30 meters and one for 40 meters side-by-side. The Panasonic Toughbook CF-53 quad-core computer with 16GB RAM has no trouble running all this, along with a third instance of UIview for two-meter packet APRS on my Kenwood TM-D700. The departure to the ham fest will be in darkness around 3:00 AM local (Eastern) time, so as to arrive at the venue by 7:30 AM (around sunrise) in time to setup. The return trip will be in full daylight, problably starting around 1:30 PM local. As in previous packet vs VARA tests, I will be using different SSIDs for the 30 and 40 meter beacons -- WA8LMF-2 for 30 meters and WA8LMF-3 for 40 meters so one will able to generate different tracks on APRS-fi for the two bands. WA8LMF (no SSID) is always my two-meters FM + internet beacons. This trip will probably be in the skip zone for my own igate in central MI (once I get out of town) on 30 meters, and probably also on 40. I will be depending on other's igates on both bands to reach the Internet on HF. Any thoughts about this before I set out next month?? I'm already planning to do this also on next summer's annual road trip to Evergreen Colorado for the Evergreen Jazz Festival always the last weekend of July. This will involve full-summer long-days HF propagation on both bands. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com Skype: WA8LMF EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band] Home Page: http://wa8lmf.net New 30 Meter APRS-over VARA Frequency As of 1 Jan 2025. Details Here: <http://WA8LMF.net/VARA/NewFrequency.htm> - APRS over VARA -- <http://wa8lmf.net/VARA/APRSoverVARA> "Studio B" Ham Shack on Wheels <http://WA8LMF.net/Aliner> -

As of 0000 Hrs UTC 1 January, the WA8LMF APRS-over-VARA igate and webserver has moved from the old APRS-over-VARA channel (10.147.60 MHz USB) to the new channel at "dial frequency" of *_10.148.200 MHz USB _*. This corresponds to an actual RF center frequency for VARA of 10.149.700 MHz . You can view the real-time mapping anytime on my webserver at <http://wa8lmf.ddns.net:14439/index2.htm> Note that the new VARA map spans the Atlantic because we ARE hearing stations from the UK and Europe here in Michigan, USA on APRS-over-VARA. Or visit the gateway page for all the WA8LMF igate/webservers at: <http://WA8LMF.net/map> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com Skype: WA8LMF EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band] Home Page: http://wa8lmf.net *30 Meter APRS-over VARA Frequency Change As of 1 Jan 2025. Details Here: <http://WA8LMF.net/VARA/NewFrequency.htm> - APRS over VARA -- <http://wa8lmf.net/VARA/APRSoverVARA> * "Studio B" Ham Shack on Wheels <http://WA8LMF.net/Aliner> -

Well I went to the website to configure the necessary comm ports for tcp client and Kiss that appears to work since I get received stations. What I am missing and I havent found it as of yet How do I configure PTT from UI-View or do I need yet another program to handle the PTT using CAT Control to my IC-7300 It works fine for winlink express and vara Thanks in advance

Ok Need some help here and cant find where to contact Andy I registered or UIView32 and sent back to the site to get my registration code However the code fails Who do I contact to resolve the issue I dont want to re-register again and add more over heard to the DB Robert Cartier kd1jg@...

Ok Need some help here and cant find where to contact Andy I registered or UIView32 and went back to the site to get my registration code However the code fails Who do I contact to resolve the issue I dont want to re-register again and add more over heard to the DB Robert Cartier kd1jg@...

Ok Need some help here and cant find where to contact Andy I registered or UIView32 and sent back to the site to get my registration code However the code fails Who do I contact to resolve the issue I dont want to re-register again and add more over heard to the DB Robert Cartier kd1jg@... <mailto:kd1jg@...>

I have just discovered that during the re-organizing of my website pages focusing on VARA and APRS, that I accidentally screwed up links and left out some important pages. This included pages on configuring various APRS client applications to work with VARA. This has now been fixed, I hope! Main gateway page to VARA-related topics: <http://WA8LMF.net/VARA> Main page for using APRS-over-VARA with various APRS clients <http://WA8LMF.net/VARA/APRSoverVARA/index.htm> 30 Meter APRS-over-VARA Frequency Change <http://WA8LMF.net/VARA/NewFrequency.htm> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com Skype: WA8LMF EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band] Home Page: http://wa8lmf.net 30 Meter APRS-over VARA Frequency Change Coming 1 Jan 2025. Details Here: <http://WA8LMF.net/VARA/NewFrequency.htm> - APRS over VARA -- <http://wa8lmf.net/VARA/APRSoverVARA> "Studio B" Ham Shack on Wheels <http://WA8LMF.net/Aliner> -

Due to frequency overlap with, and interference to/from, the "Robust Packet" channels used in Europe, APRS-over-VARA is moving to a new channel ABOVE the present AX.25 APRS channel on 30 Meters. Currently, APRS-over-VARA is operating with a radio "dial frequency" of 10.147.600, placing the center frequency of it's 500-Hz wide RF signal at 10.149.100 MHz. Starting *January 1st 2025 at 0000 UTC*, the new RF channel center will be *10.149.700 MHz* . To make the change, set your radio "dial frequency" to: *10.148.200 MHz USB* Until Jan 1st, I will be running the old channel as usual, and ALSO beaconing test signals (KJ4ERJ's Space Station Object) every two minuteson the new channel. More info is on my web site at: <http://WA8LMF.net/VARA> This page is a gateway page to multiple posts on VARA and APRS-over-VARA that have previously been scattered rather haphazardly around my web site. Click on the link in the yellow box near the top of the page for the frequency change info. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com Skype: WA8LMF EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band] Home Page: http://wa8lmf.net APRS-over-VARA igates now operating on 30 & 60 meters <http://WA8LMF.net/map> "Studio B" Ham Shack on Wheels <http://WA8LMF.net/Aliner> -- APRS over VARA -- <http://wa8lmf.net/VARA/APRSoverVARA.>