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I have had HF VARA set up on my computer using my Kenwood TS-850S and a SignaLink for the past year and a half. It is my goto digital mode and I use in multiple times a week. In fact, I used it on Monday to send my digital check-ins to the various ARES nets I inhabit each week - - with no problems. I always us the same gateway (K5RAV) on 7102 Mhz. I receive that signal usually about S-8 or higher, and it usually picks me up after the first or second poll. But today, I tried to send some Winlink messages and K5RAV (or my station) seemed to be acting strange. On the TS-850, I can hear both sides of the "digital conversation" and I have become accustomed to how it sounds as it moves through the connection, sending, receiving, etc.. K5RAV picked me up immediately after the first poll, but then we went into a cycle where it would poll, my radio would answer, it would poll, my radio would answer, etc., and after about 10 of these cycles I got a QRT, both stations identified, and no traffic passed. I can only guess that I inadvertently changed something in the settings, so I went back through the set-up menus, but I could find nothing that deviated from the original configuration. I will admit that I am definitely a "user" of this technology and I have no idea what to check next. I have tried 4 or 5 other times to connect to K5RAV with no luck, and I have been working my way through other 40M gateways to try, but haven't gotten into one yet. I ended up sending my traffic on VARA FM. The VARA Log file from one of the attempts looks like this: 2024-11-13 16:50:21 Connecting to K5RAV... 1/15 2024-11-13 16:50:30 Connected to K5RAV VARA HF v4.8.7 2024-11-13 16:52:00 QRT Received 2024-11-13 16:52:06 Disconnected TX: 0 Bytes (Max: 0 bps) RX: 0 Bytes (Max: 0 bps) Session Time: 01:36 You can see that there is a 1.5 minute period between the connection and the QRT Received where there is just a back and forth handshake of some kind but no traffic getting sent in either direction. Can anyone suggest some guidance I can use? Thanks.

Does anyone here have an IC-9700 working at full rate with VARA Wide using a Masters Communications DRA-series sound card? If so, which DRA are you using?

Have you seen VARA FM Wide pass data through a Digirig Mobile at wide speeds? I mean speeds greater than 14,000 bits/second, which are only supported by the wide modes of VARA FM. The VARA display might look like this ( https://www.winlink.org/sites/default/files/oe8xyr_vara_fm_v4.1.2.jpg ). VARA FM speeds are listed here ( https://www.winlink.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/screenshot_2020-11-27_152223.jpg?itok=kNw-NoHj ). If you’ve seen this, please tell us about the radio, antenna, computer and software versions you used. I’m not sure a Digirig Mobile has enough audio bandwidth to do this. Demonstration of such a high data rate would be evidence that it does. I’m not equipped to test it.

Have you seen VARA FM Wide pass data through a Digirig Lite at wide speeds? I mean speeds greater than 14 Kbits/second, which are only supported by the wide modes of VARA FM. If you’ve seen this, please tell us about the radio, antenna, computer and software versions you used. I've heard a Digirig Mobile has enough audio bandwidth to do this. But I haven't heard about a Digirig Lite. I’m not equipped to test it.

I am a little late to this discusssion on computers vs VARA, but I have had no problem whatever using any computer I wish to use, including an HP laptop, with VARA and my DRA modem. But I am using Win 10 wiith all of those. I refuse to use Win11 at this point. When I was an IT guru at the University of Idaho, I had to insist that none of those computers I supported could switch to the latest MicroSoft operating system until after 1 year of getting the bugs out of it. I DO know that a good friend just bought a new laptop from a local store here in Moscow, Idaho which came with Win 11 installed and we had one heck of a time making it work with any digital software or interface!!! The problem, in our case, wasn't the computer, it was BIG TIME, with Win 11. Win11 does some really strange things with the sound system. The last thing we had to do to make it work was to reverse the two RX TX jumper wires in the interface because Win11 insisted that our "sending" data was actually "receiving" data, and vice versa. Reversing the two wires in the interfaces fixed the problem, but it was NOT intuitive. Ken W7EKB -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com

Hello all, Honestly, this may be taken the wrong way and I just want to say up-front I'm NOT looking to cause any trouble here. I assume I'm just missing some obvious things and that is why I'm asking! I know VARA is very popular and widely used, but I can't seem to find a 'home page' for the project. Support is hosted here on groups.io, on the only 'official' looking website I can find the last post is from like 13 years ago, and even the purchase screen is a 3rd party payment processor. I'm surely missing something but where is the homepage, where is the official documentation? Additionally, I'm trying to find the terms and conditions of the license agreement. For example, if I purchase a license, how many machines can I use with that license? How many call signs... etc? I think you guys get the idea of my question here. Again, I'm not trying to throw shade, I feel like I'm just missing something! Can someone point me to the 'source of truth' for this product? Thanks all!