On Sep 6, 2023, at 4:58 PM, Jeff KP3FT via groups.io <kp3ft@...> wrote:

?VARA rocks.? We switched from 300bd ax.25 over to VARA HF for a 24/7 180-mile BPQ backbone link, and never looked back.? The difference is amazing.? Even when propagation was good, there were just too many retries with 300bd ax.25, not to mention it's a lot slower moving data, compared to VARA HF which at times exceeds even 1200bd speed.? One advantage though of ax.25 is that it allows multiple simultaneous connections, unlike VARA which allows only one.? Doesn't matter in my case, since VARA is strictly for a backbone link between two nodes.