Re: Yaesu FT-891: Has anyone used this radio for VARA FM?
Thanks to all for your responses. My intent is to use the radio in emergencies.
Carol, The challenge with the FT-891 and VARA FM is VARA FM would only work on 10 m and 6 m bands.? In most regions, there are very few VARA FM RMS gateways operating on 10 m and 6 m bands.? There are many other transceivers which would be better suited for use on VHF/UHF bands.?
What are your personal goals for use of VARA FM and what bands are being using in your region?
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73 DE VE3SMF
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Specification:
Specifications
Frequency Range: Tx: 1.8 ¨C 54 MHz (Amateur Bands Only) Rx: 30 KHz ¨C 56 MHz
Channel Step: 2/5/10 Hz (SSB, CW), 10/100 Hz (AM,FM)
Frequency Stability: +/- 0.5 ppm 14 ¡ãF to + 122 ¡ãF (-10 ¡ãC to +50 ¡ãC)
Modes of Emission: A1A (CW), A3E (AM), J3E (LSB, USB), F3E (FM)
Impedance: 50 Ohms, unbalanced
Supply Voltage: 13.8VDC +/- 15%, negative ground
Current Consumption: Rx: 2.0 A (Signal Present) Tx: 23 A
Operating Tempature Range: 14 ¡ãF to ¡ã +122 ¡ãF (-10 ¡ãC to +50 ¡ãC)
Case Size (WxHxD): 6.1¡± x 2.0¡± x 8.6¡± (155 x 52 x 218 mm) w/o Knobs
Weight (Approx.): 4.18 lb (1.9 kg)
Output Power: 100W SSB/CW/FM (AM: 25W)
Circuit Type: SSB/CW/AM: Triple-conversion Super-heterodyne FM: Double Conversion Super-heterodyne
Intermediate Frequencies: 1st: 69.450 MHz / 2nd: 450 KHz
Maximum AF Output: 2.5 W 4 ohmz with 10% THD
Audio output Impedance: 4 to 16 Ohms (8 Ohms nominal)
Sensitivity: SSB/CW (S/N 10dB) 0.158uV (1.8 - 30 MHz), 0.125uV (50 -54 MHz)
AM (S/N 10 dB) 4 uV (0.5 ¨C 1.8 MHz), 1.6uV (1.8 ¨C 30 MHz), 1.2uV (50 ¨C 54 MHz)
FM (12 dB SINAD) 0.35uV (29, 50 ¨C 54 MHz)
Warranty: 3 years
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Check VARA FM Settings and Windows sound settings with VARA FM running.? Check PTT settings software.
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Roy Dugger, KD6R
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Re: Yaesu FT-891: Has anyone used this radio for VARA FM?
Sorry, misread the question. Thought it was the FT-991a group.
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"new" TM-271- HOW TO CONNECT
I took a chance and purchased one of the Kenwood TM-271 online from China with the intention of adding the data connector for use with VARA.
I have the radio, but the circuit board is nothing like the ones in the posts that show how to do the connection and the PC board is not like the one in the 271 service manual.
The chassis has the notch for the cable and the radio includes the menu options for 1200 or 9600. ?
Has anyone figured out if / how to make the connections in these radios?
The manual is in Chinese only.? I downloaded the Kenwood manual, and the menu items are all the same.?
It programs with the Kenwood MCP-1A or with Chirp, and both report that it is a 271.?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
KA9CAR
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Re: Yaesu FT-891: Has anyone used this radio for VARA FM?
Yes. ?I use the internal sound card. ?It won't support FM Wide but I'm OK with that. ?Took a bit of work to figure out all the menu settings. ?But there are several web sites with advice on digital configuration for the FT-991A. ?I use the rig for Field Day mostly, and mostly operate WSJT-X on HF. ?But the settings are the same. PatMc AJ6MJ
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Re: Yaesu FT-891: Has anyone used this radio for VARA FM?
YES! I have been using it successfully. I use the data cable along with a separate sound dongle plugged into my laptop.? SABRENT USB Type C External Stereo Sound Adapter for Windows and Mac. Plug and play No drivers Needed. (AU-MMSC) Took some experimentation but it¡¯s working and working well. Randy West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group?
Jupiter Tequesta Repeater Group? Palm Beach County ARES?? Straight Key Century Club #26062 Long Island CW Club #3482
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 22:33 Carol Flaherty via <flaherty.66= [email protected]> wrote: Yaesu FT-891: Has anyone used this radio for VARA FM?
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Re: Yaesu FT-891: Has anyone used this radio for VARA FM?
Carol, The challenge with the FT-891 and VARA FM is VARA FM would only work on 10 m and 6 m bands.? In most regions, there are very few VARA FM RMS gateways operating on 10 m and 6 m bands.? There are many other transceivers which would be better suited for use on VHF/UHF bands.?
What are your personal goals for use of VARA FM and what bands are being using in your region?
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73 DE VE3SMF
?
Specification:
Specifications
Frequency Range: Tx: 1.8 ¨C 54 MHz (Amateur Bands Only) Rx: 30 KHz ¨C 56 MHz
Channel Step: 2/5/10 Hz (SSB, CW), 10/100 Hz (AM,FM)
Frequency Stability: +/- 0.5 ppm 14 ¡ãF to + 122 ¡ãF (-10 ¡ãC to +50 ¡ãC)
Modes of Emission: A1A (CW), A3E (AM), J3E (LSB, USB), F3E (FM)
Impedance: 50 Ohms, unbalanced
Supply Voltage: 13.8VDC +/- 15%, negative ground
Current Consumption: Rx: 2.0 A (Signal Present) Tx: 23 A
Operating Tempature Range: 14 ¡ãF to ¡ã +122 ¡ãF (-10 ¡ãC to +50 ¡ãC)
Case Size (WxHxD): 6.1¡± x 2.0¡± x 8.6¡± (155 x 52 x 218 mm) w/o Knobs
Weight (Approx.): 4.18 lb (1.9 kg)
Output Power: 100W SSB/CW/FM (AM: 25W)
Circuit Type: SSB/CW/AM: Triple-conversion Super-heterodyne FM: Double Conversion Super-heterodyne
Intermediate Frequencies: 1st: 69.450 MHz / 2nd: 450 KHz
Maximum AF Output: 2.5 W 4 ohmz with 10% THD
Audio output Impedance: 4 to 16 Ohms (8 Ohms nominal)
Sensitivity: SSB/CW (S/N 10dB) 0.158uV (1.8 - 30 MHz), 0.125uV (50 -54 MHz)
AM (S/N 10 dB) 4 uV (0.5 ¨C 1.8 MHz), 1.6uV (1.8 ¨C 30 MHz), 1.2uV (50 ¨C 54 MHz)
FM (12 dB SINAD) 0.35uV (29, 50 ¨C 54 MHz)
Warranty: 3 years
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Yaesu FT-891: Has anyone used this radio for VARA FM?
Yaesu FT-891: Has anyone used this radio for VARA FM?
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Menu item FM PKT mode will not transmit in 9600 . Transmit Only in 1200
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Thank you Chris, Noel, and Larry
Those hints were anticipated though match my initial settings.? Double checked, actually triple checked then still no modem audio exchange.? Hardware issue would be considered if it weren't for? VARA HF, FLdigi, and WSJTx HF working just fine.? The issue is isolated to VARA VHF at the moment.?
Oh yes, and confirm the return to mic for voice.? I don't use voice at the moment as I am functionally deaf.??
Any more ideas anyone?? I take silence as a no.? Thanks again, Phil / K4PO
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Re: Recover Registration Key For VARA
If you have a backup of your varafm.ini file it is in there. 73 Ray ae5hn
On Wednesday, June 19, 2024 at 01:05:45 PM CDT, dale durham <daled43@...> wrote:
Send him your callsign or whatever you used to register your account.
73,
Dale W5WI
Need to recover registration key for VARA.? Lost the email with the key.? Who/how do I contact?
Tom, WA9AFM
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I use FM Data mode for VARA FM on my 991. Set audio input for that mode to USB in the menus then you don't have to keep switching back and forth when you use FM voice. Once you get it working, save to a memory.
Chris, VA1PYE
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On June 19, 2024 4:45:29 p.m. ADT, Marvin Penepent <pilot-1@...> wrote:
I¡¯m not sure of the menu number but in FM part of the menu switch mike to rear. ? ? Larry KF5MLP ? ? ? Hey all you FT-991 VARA FM ops,
I surrender, my FT-991 based VARA HF works as expected.? My issue is with VARA FM audio throughput.? Transmit keys, but no audio passes either way.? Since HF audio works what is the FM mystery setting that this OM just can't seem to sort out.? It would seem to me the setup would be identical though it appears not so.
Anyone using the plain FT-991 on VARA FM?? I need you audio setup menu settings, please.
Thank You, Phil / K4PO
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The menu item is in the 70¡¯s fm mike select rear / mike
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On Jun 19, 2024, at 3:45?PM, Marvin Penepent via groups.io <pilot-1@...> wrote:
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I¡¯m not sure of the menu number but in FM part of the menu switch mike to rear.
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Larry KF5MLP
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Hey all you FT-991 VARA FM ops,
I surrender, my FT-991 based VARA HF works as expected.? My issue is with VARA FM audio throughput.? Transmit keys, but no audio passes either way.? Since HF audio works what is the FM mystery setting that this OM just can't seem to sort out.? It would seem
to me the setup would be identical though it appears not so.
Anyone using the plain FT-991 on VARA FM?? I need you audio setup menu settings, please.
Thank You, Phil / K4PO
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Marvin L. Penepent
KF5MLP
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I¡¯m not sure of the menu number but in FM part of the menu switch mike to rear. ? ? Larry KF5MLP ? ?
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Philip - K4PO Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2024 2:26 PM To: [email protected]Subject: [VARA-MODEM] FT-991 (non-A) FM ? Hey all you FT-991 VARA FM ops,
I surrender, my FT-991 based VARA HF works as expected.? My issue is with VARA FM audio throughput.? Transmit keys, but no audio passes either way.? Since HF audio works what is the FM mystery setting that this OM just can't seem to sort out.? It would seem to me the setup would be identical though it appears not so.
Anyone using the plain FT-991 on VARA FM?? I need you audio setup menu settings, please.
Thank You, Phil / K4PO -- Marvin L. Penepent
KF5MLP
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Hey all you FT-991 VARA FM ops,
I surrender, my FT-991 based VARA HF works as expected.? My issue is with VARA FM audio throughput.? Transmit keys, but no audio passes either way.? Since HF audio works what is the FM mystery setting that this OM just can't seem to sort out.? It would seem to me the setup would be identical though it appears not so.
Anyone using the plain FT-991 on VARA FM?? I need you audio setup menu settings, please.
Thank You, Phil / K4PO
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Re: 2 Radios for Vara FM wide available on Ebay.
You right for me, but my mother language is french and some details can be lost in translation....
Le mer. 19 juin 2024, 19:50, Ken Jones via <KB3JA.Ken.Jones= [email protected]> a ¨¦crit?: Ehhh, no. Not to put too sharp point on this bit of trivia, but ¡°bauds¡± is not English. It¡¯s ¡°Baud.¡± And not ¡°baud rate¡± either. Any wireline communicator ¡ª a breed facing extinction, to be sure ¡ª ?understands that the term baud is defined as the inverse of the unit interval ¡ª in DC signals. Old Teletype veterans understand that a 75 baud signal is called that because the unit interval (minimum length of a Mark or Space) is 13 msec. Likewise, a 45.45 baud signal has a unit interval of 22 msec. This matters (or used to matter) because it was a way of expressing the maximum DC signalling speed a given communications path could support ¡ª to provide an acceptably accurate square wave (a rise and fall time of something less than thirty percent of the unit interval) required a bandwidth of roughly five times the circuit speed, useful data when designing multi-channel (Mux) radio systems. These days, not so much. Modern modulation techniques have rendered the term obsolete for all but the most devoted Teletype and Kleinschmidt fans? This has nothing (Nothing! Said Sergeant Schulltz of Stalag 13) to do with data rate. ? To drive this completely into the ground, imagine a time clock system which receives its instructions from a central timing source ¡ª a master clock ¡ª and distributes the time-of-day pulses to the slave clocks throughout the building by means of a twisted pair of wires. Every minute, the master clock sends a pulse of 110VDC down the pair to move each controlled clockwork one minute ahead. The pulse is 12.5 milliseconds long. By definition the data rate is one bit per minute. The signaling occurs at eighty Baud.? But I could be wrong.
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Kenneth F (Ken) Jones
+1 206-693-1235 on Signal, Zoom and iMessage & FaceTime, and plain old telephone, too.
?KB3JA on Winlink
?610 2194 HamShack Hotline
Pray with faith, act with?courage, never surrender. ?
You confuse bauds and bit Per seconds. Gaussiam error are for a given electrical change in the signal Per seconds. The goal of modulation like Vara is to put a maximum of bits in each electrical change. So the throuhput in bit Per second is a lot higher than the bauds rate
I use the Alinco DR-135T for my RMS Gateway station and it easily runs VARA FM Wide using a Masters Communications DR-50 interface.<IMG_1158.jpg>
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Re: Recover Registration Key For VARA
Send him your callsign or whatever you used to register your account.
73,
Dale W5WI
Need to recover registration key for VARA.? Lost the email with the key.? Who/how do I contact?
Tom, WA9AFM
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Re: Recover Registration Key For VARA
Contact Jose directly... be sure to include your call sign when requesting the information.
Email: nietoros@hotmail.com
73, Ken NB6S
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Recover Registration Key For VARA
Need to recover registration key for VARA.? Lost the email with the key.? Who/how do I contact?
Tom, WA9AFM
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Re: 2 Radios for Vara FM wide available on Ebay.
Ehhh, no. Not to put too sharp point on this bit of trivia, but ¡°bauds¡± is not English. It¡¯s ¡°Baud.¡± And not ¡°baud rate¡± either. Any wireline communicator ¡ª a breed facing extinction, to be sure ¡ª ?understands that the term baud is defined as the inverse of the unit interval ¡ª in DC signals. Old Teletype veterans understand that a 75 baud signal is called that because the unit interval (minimum length of a Mark or Space) is 13 msec. Likewise, a 45.45 baud signal has a unit interval of 22 msec. This matters (or used to matter) because it was a way of expressing the maximum DC signalling speed a given communications path could support ¡ª to provide an acceptably accurate square wave (a rise and fall time of something less than thirty percent of the unit interval) required a bandwidth of roughly five times the circuit speed, useful data when designing multi-channel (Mux) radio systems. These days, not so much. Modern modulation techniques have rendered the term obsolete for all but the most devoted Teletype and Kleinschmidt fans? This has nothing (Nothing! Said Sergeant Schulltz of Stalag 13) to do with data rate. ? To drive this completely into the ground, imagine a time clock system which receives its instructions from a central timing source ¡ª a master clock ¡ª and distributes the time-of-day pulses to the slave clocks throughout the building by means of a twisted pair of wires. Every minute, the master clock sends a pulse of 110VDC down the pair to move each controlled clockwork one minute ahead. The pulse is 12.5 milliseconds long. By definition the data rate is one bit per minute. The signaling occurs at eighty Baud.? But I could be wrong.
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Kenneth F (Ken) Jones
+1 206-693-1235 on Signal, Zoom and iMessage & FaceTime, and plain old telephone, too.
?KB3JA on Winlink
?610 2194 HamShack Hotline
Pray with faith, act with?courage, never surrender. ?
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On Jun 19, 2024, at 09:15, Olivier Maillard via groups.io <hb9tob@...> wrote:
You confuse bauds and bit Per seconds. Gaussiam error are for a given electrical change in the signal Per seconds. The goal of modulation like Vara is to put a maximum of bits in each electrical change. So the throuhput in bit Per second is a lot higher than the bauds rate
I use the Alinco DR-135T for my RMS Gateway station and it easily runs VARA FM Wide using a Masters Communications DR-50 interface.<IMG_1158.jpg>
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Carol Flaherty
Randy KO4WTM
NOEL MORTIER W9NMM
dale durham
Ken Crouse