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Noticed at least one DX station on 30M VARA APRS today (see attached). There used to be quite a few Europeans on Robust Packet APRS, but those numbers have dwindled to a handful of stations and a few I-gates.?

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G4HYG is my "co-conspirator" in the migration to the the new APRS-over-VARA ;channel.?? He pioneered another non-packet mode for APRS transmission two decades ago.??? The program "APRS Messenger" sent APRS packets over PSK63 or MFSK16.? [At the time, before FT-8 exploded onto the ham radio scene, PSK31 was the hot weak-signal DX mode.]??

The frequency 10.149.700 MHz was the center of the actual APRS Messenger RF channel in the 1990's & early 2000s.? We are now trying to migrate APRS-over-VARA to the same channel center -- this is done by setting the radio dial frequency to 10.148.200 Mhz USB .

Here is what I am seeing this morning on this frequency with my TS-2000 and G5RV-type 105' dipole:? Note the "Wall-to-Wall" DX from the US west coast to Scotland UK at the same time.

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30 Meter?? APRS-over VARA? Frequency Change
Coming 1 Jan 2025.?? Details Here:
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