Re: Winlink VARA-FM working with AIOC and Baofeng
Yes, it was Bullard's Beach! We had amazing fish'n'chips at a little place in the harbor, and enjoyed a cranberry bog tour. We found that the cranberry-rum jam was amazing! Sadly, the day we drove
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Dave Telling, KJ7WT
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Re: Winlink RMS Packet with VARA FM and Soundmodem
Scott, I have gotten SoundModem working flawlessly for several YCARES gateways I switched from hardware packet TNCs to using DRA's or SignaLinks where I new I need to use a program that only supported
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Brian - W7OWO
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Re: Winlink VARA-FM working with AIOC and Baofeng
That would be Bullard's Beach State Park. The local radio group often has POTA activations there. I am on the bluffs above Old Town and my Gateway has excellent coverage. Bring your toys! Thomas
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Thomas KF7RSF
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Re: Winlink VARA-FM working with AIOC and Baofeng
Thomas, Thanks for that information. I'm not sure exactly what led me to think that the "Radio only" mode was correct, but glad I was finally able to stumble my way to a working solution! BTW, I saw
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Dave Telling, KJ7WT
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Re: Winlink VARA-FM working with AIOC and Baofeng
Congratulations on sorting out issues! I strongly suggest that you stay as far from the Radio-Only modes as possible. These modes were written into the Winlink software to serve as a last resort in
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Thomas KF7RSF
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Re: Winlink RMS Packet with VARA FM and Soundmodem
Thank you, thank you, thank you. For all the advice and comments. I have both packet and VARA FM working on the test gateway. Tonight I installed COM Port splitter software and set up two com ports. I
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George Privett
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Winlink VARA-FM working with AIOC and Baofeng
Hello All, Well, I feel kind of foolish posting this, but I got my Winlink/VARA-FM/AIOC/Baofeng combo working, and it was partly due to my ignorance and an unexpected hardware issue. My hardware setup
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Dave Telling, KJ7WT
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Re: Winlink RMS Packet with VARA FM and Soundmodem
I also calibrate for VARA FM but aim for the VARA FM receive level to be around -6dB. This produces a good deviation level with Sound Modem. Tom N5TW _._,_._,_
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Tom Whiteside
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Re: Winlink RMS Packet with VARA FM and Soundmodem
I agree that it can be difficult to get optimum levels for both packet and Vara FM. I usually optimize for Vara FM as soundmodem is pretty forgiving and seems to do well with a wider range of levels.
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Scott Currie
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Re: Winlink RMS Packet with VARA FM and Soundmodem
John Denison The only thing that could interfere with performance is the COM Port splitter, it is software and software does run on a processor and it theoretically could cause a truncation of
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Wes Larson
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Re: Winlink RMS Packet with VARA FM and Soundmodem
Have you considered setting up two gateways on the same PC? It seems like every gateway in my area that has both packet and VARA FM on the same radio & sound card has poor performance (speed step
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John Denison
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Re: Winlink RMS Packet with VARA FM and Soundmodem
Brian (W7OWO) has been a very beneficial consultant for our (K7MAR) project. After much hair pulling and frustration the "Mike Spohn N1SPW" document "Windows-11 Digirig Sound Settings" got us on the
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Wes Larson
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Re: Winlink RMS Packet with VARA FM and Soundmodem
The C-Media CM-108 and CM-119 sound chips, ? used in many USB sound "dongles" sound card, and used in several ham digimode interfaces (DigiRig, Masters DRA, etc), ?? have a single-bit I/O pin in
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WA8LMF
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Re: Winlink RMS Packet with VARA FM and Soundmodem
Thanks again. I will try a com port splitter app. https://freeserialportsplitter.com/ I have DIRWOLF loaded, but not running yet - still reading the documentation. Is C media a distinct piece of
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George Privett
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Re: Winlink RMS Packet with VARA FM and Soundmodem
You can't run dual-mode using my instructions with a sound card interface that uses a COM port for PTT. You would need a COM port splitter application to make that work. My instructions assume you are
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Scott Currie
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Re: Winlink RMS Packet with VARA FM and Soundmodem
I forgot to include: When building the dual mode gateway with the DigiRig Lite, I found the initial volume levels recommended in the instructions were too high.? I eventually ended up with? the
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Brian - W7OWO
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Re: Winlink RMS Packet with VARA FM and Soundmodem
Thank you to everyone who sent advice. I tried several suggestions. I think packet mode is getting close to working but the message is not sent. Hardware: 1. gateway - Initially Yeasu 1500M, now
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George Privett
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Re: Winlink RMS Packet with VARA FM and Soundmodem
I have I have 5 dual mode RMS Gateways I maintain for my ARES group, and two personal dual mode RMS Packet gateways that I use for training exercises and exploration of features and operations.? ? I
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Brian - W7OWO
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Re: Connecting with VARA-FM, but not sending/receiving messages
Make sure the cable is connected correctly. There are some cables that have an elbow in them, which be the side connecting to the radio. Connecting it with a straight jack will work but not transmit
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Yigal M. Rechtman (K2EFG)
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Re: Connecting with VARA-FM, but not sending/receiving messages
That¡¯s normal <davetelling@...> wrote:
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Bob W0EG
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