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Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
This mornings test on 30. The results really show the struggle despite having local and distant IGates. 40m was rock solid this morning.
By Michael - NA7Q · #8786 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
Yesterday evening's results. Not bad, but the band was very weak as I got towards the end destination. The dark hours definitely become a killer of the band.
By Michael - NA7Q · #8785 ·
Re: PinPoint with Vara HF problem.
On 40m, almost all of us do RF beacons only. We never send it to the servers. That way as you described, we can see who has heard us. Why not just go this route? Very is very slow for sure, so things
By Michael - NA7Q · #8784 ·
Re: PinPoint with Vara HF problem.
Some years ago I was the author of APRS Messenger. It's main feature was to send APRS beacons and messages over PSK, GMSK and MFSK modes on HF. One feature I added to it was a timer to delay the
By Chris Moulding · #8783 ·
PinPoint with Vara HF problem.
I have two stations running PinPoint with Vara on 30M. Both are acting the same. I noticed that when PinPoint is connected to APRS-IS all I see on raw data are position reports through the internet.
By wa5luy · #8782 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
This morning's results. Top is APRS.fi. 1 packet gated. Bottom is beacon. 30m was rough! 40m is looking good this morning.
By Michael - NA7Q · #8781 ·
Re: FT-DX10 WJST Hamlib error
This Group is for VARA.
By Steve Fiala · #8780 ·
FT-DX10 WJST Hamlib error
In setting up radio in WJST I get HAMLIB error when I try to connect. Using Windows 10.
By David Fleischman · #8779 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
Still have to run a windows pc with the vara tnc running. Its only the aprs client.
By Devan Banman · #8778 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
I presume that APRSdroid runs on some flavor of Android OS.?? How does it actually generate the VARA audio waveform for transmit, given that VARA is (as far as I know) a Windows-only closed-source
By WA8LMF · #8777 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
VARAdroid is a custom version of APRSdroid that I originally created to deal with VARA HF's slowness, which is now in my APRSdroid releases. So it originally allowed settable message retry limits, and
By Michael - NA7Q · #8776 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
On 1/6/2025 8:37 PM, Michael - NA7Q via groups.io wrote: > Oh, and the antenna is mounted to the roof via NMO but mag mounted for support. As it'll tear the thing metal like paper. So it has a full
By WA8LMF · #8775 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
How do you assign the timing?? ? I can see that the usual VHF scenario of a limited number of igates in a given region, and FM capture most likely ensure one wins out over the others.? This would
By WA8LMF · #8774 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
What is "VARAdroid"??? Does it actually generate VARA tones natively?
By WA8LMF · #8773 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
Oh, and the antenna is mounted to the roof via NMO but mag mounted for support. As it'll tear the thing metal like paper. So it has a full and proper ground, with greatly helps the performance over a
By Michael - NA7Q · #8772 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
WA8LMF. Yes, I got out fairly okay after the band opened. I wouldn't say "quite well", as it missed beacons and way too many messages alike. All that I heard was very weak as well. Remember, that I'm
By Michael - NA7Q · #8771 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
Hi Devan, I was using some modified smartbeaconing settings in VARAdroid. Happy to share those if interested.
By Michael - NA7Q · #8770 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
I was going to say, the digi is ID'ing at regular intervals via the status message just fine from what I can see; https://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=KNAPPA&limit=50&view=normal Most of the colocated, high
By Geoff Armstrong VE7KA · #8769 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
Digipeaters can be only denoted by an SSID only. For example, a couple of our local VHF digipeaters are ¡®CHILLI¡¯ and ¡®CARROL¡¯. The trustees contact info is contained within the beacon status
By Glenn O'Connor · #8768 ·
Re: 30 Meter VARA APRS - Test Run Today!
On 1/6/2025 2:55 PM, Glenn O'Connor via groups.io wrote: ?But still doesn't seem to be an actual callsign.?? Is this a receive-only system only facing the Internet -- not digipeating on RF?
By WA8LMF · #8767 ·