First Contact
Well, after having to fix my antenna the dark after an ice storm, I have make my first VARA contact, although brief. A little after 1300z today, I had a brief connect with w7ees. So, nice to see a
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Don <w9jun@...>
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Welcome new members to this new Group
Good day all.
Hope everyone is doing well. I started this group, to allow us to interact on the VARA Program. Share input, ask questions, discover advantages and perfect our use of VARA.?
73 Jerry
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VARA Task Resources
Aside from all the other resource hogs windows forces us to deal with, VARA uses the most CPU over many of the windows services.
Is that your experience, so far?
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Don <w9jun@...>
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Moderators wanted
I see we are up to 12 members.. Anyone wishing to assist with moderation. Please send me a reply.
I will look at between 6 and 8 moderators and expand as membership maybe require..
Welcome to all. 73
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Jerome Kutche <n9lya@...>
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Re: Moderators wanted
I'm interested
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Don <w9jun@...>
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Re: VARA Task Resources
I have noticed that as well But even when its running CPU at 100% it seems to work fine.. 73 jk
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Jerome Kutche <n9lya@...>
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Subscriptions
Nice to see we are up to 18 subscribers
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Don - W9JUN <w9jun@...>
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Garbled responses from the VARA modem.
I mentioned in previous postings elsewhere, some of us are receiving strange reply messages from the VARA modem. An example that I posted earlier:
I'm running BPQ v. 6.0.17.1 with VARA v.2.2.1 and I
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Dave - W7EES
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Another connect
Another connection: 11/25/18
JEFFCO:W9JUN-7}?Heard?List?for?Port?5
KN4IEB+????00:00:31:42??7.1045
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Don - W9JUN <w9jun@...>
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Curious findings...
I'm wondering why this thread died... https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/vara-hf-digital-mode-for-winlink.599833/page-4
Maybe it was the presumption that it was linked to Winlink? Discontent
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Dave - W7EES
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Re: Curious findings...
Winlink is not a good thing to have a ham radio project associated with.
As far as I know, the gateway operators never make sure the messages they are sending are signed by a ham. If they are not
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Tadd KA2DEW in NC
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Re: Curious findings...
All of our gateway operators only allow messages originated by hams, so has not been a problem for us.
Like any tool, Winlink can be misused. And there are other tools that we can use like Fldigi
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Jeff Scoville
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Re: Curious findings...
Definitely need to discuss the pros and cons. This is how our networks can continually evolve into a more efficient use of equipment and frequency allocation.
There is something for all of us in this
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Don - W9JUN <w9jun@...>
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Re: Curious findings...
I've have lots of reservations regarding the Winlink group since it was introduced in the 90's. I don't like that radio traffic is so easily routed to the internet, depriving RF networks of activity.
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Dave - W7EES
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Re: Curious findings...
Winlink is an organization, not a mode or a modem.
I agree that we shouldn't get hung up with misinformation and stick to the subject of the group.
Hope to hear you using VARA when propagation
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Dave - W7EES
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Can't get the Dang VARA to run correctly
Hello All,
I'm?little frustrated with this software been trying for several hours over a couple days trying to get this thing going !!. I had to reinstall the software because some file was missing
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Jeff K4JTN
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Re: Can't get the Dang VARA to run correctly
Jeff,
Sorry you're having such difficulty. First, show me the path to the VARA directory.
Dave - W7EES
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Dave - W7EES
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Re: Can't get the Dang VARA to run correctly
Dave,
To be honest I think its C:\ vara\ vara.exe but not sure can't access the?page to check any of that !! When you go to drop down to load vara in rms?express and click open it starts to launch
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Jeff K4JTN
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Re: Can't get the Dang VARA to run correctly
I had issues on my WINXP pc and my New WIN7 Laptop my AV Software was stopping it you will have to exclude it from any FIREWALL and AV software both the software and the ports assigned. At least that
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Jerome Kutche <n9lya@...>
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Re: Can't get the Dang VARA to run correctly
Jeff,
That eliminates the Windows 10 lockout then. I see Jerry suggesting
white-listing VARA in your anit-virus program. I wouldn't re-install RMS
Express. It shouldn't be a host program problem. I
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W7EES
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