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On 16 Oct 2022, at 11:42, Andrew P. <andrewemt@...> wrote:

Yes, those stations in the aprs.fi report you screenshotted were most likely the various HF I-gates who forwarded your packets. But it doesn't mean those are transmit-capable I-gates; far too many I-gates are receive-only on the RF side.

Re: ARDOP: forget it. There's a reason they call it _Win_link; it's because it's for Microsoft Windows, not any other operating system. And the Winlink authors don't produce open-source software, so you can't read their source code to port it to another operating system, and they choose to write for only one operating system. That's just the way it is.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of sv Zen Again <vk6hsr@...>
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2022 11:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] Send Email via HF

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for your reply. I’ve used Winlink over HF for many years via a Parallels Windows VM. Recently I changed to a Mac Mini M1 for its lower power consumption. But Parallels only supports Windows 11 for ARM64 on M1 and there’s no driver for my IC7300 USB-Serial Bridge. Direwolf and YAAC on the other hand run natively on the M1.

The thing is that I do receive a reply, so it seems someone’s willing to talk to me…
[cid:2970D6AE-30A1-4A2F-B2F6-6F1AE3EE3BB2]

Am I correct in understanding these are the APRS-IS stations which forwarded my request…
[cid:8E998068-2332-459D-B077-3CBEC75F9E5F]

Would you suggest I try to message these folks via YAAC or another means?

The main thing stopping me using Winlink direct is an ARDOP app for M1. I’ve got PAT, HAMLIB etc running but can’t find ARDOP. Do you know of an ARDOP app for M1?
Cheers,
Mike.

On 16 Oct 2022, at 11:04, Andrew P. <andrewemt@...<mailto:andrewemt@...>> wrote:

Greetings.

It sounds like you are in an impossible situation. If you are trying to using the WLNK-1 server on APRS-IS over HF, I expect you will be disappointed. I expect there would be very few HF transmit I-gates anyway, just because of the limited bandwidth on a 300-baud channel and how easily the channel could be flooded world-wide with excessive IS->RF forwarding.

Note that WLNK-1 is not a station; it is a server on the APRS-IS backbone. Your querying of aprs.fi<> showed you which I-gate stations are forwarding your RF packets to the APRS-IS; you would have to ask those station's control operators whether or not their stations are transmit-capable, but I would guess none of them are.

Also, there are some known bugs in YAAC's code for talking to the WLNK-1 server, so even if you were working on a frequency where IS->RF gating was available to you, it might not work.

You might want to switch to another service, like direct WinLink, instead of trying to use WinLink over APRS.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of sv Zen Again <vk6hsr@...>
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2022 9:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [yaac-users] Send Email via HF

Gday from VK6HSR-8 aboard sv Zen Again currently in Curacao,

I'm a new user of APRS. I'm using YAAC 1.0beta178 with direwolf 1.6 on a Mac Mini M1 running MacOS 12.6. My rig is an Icom IC-7300 and I'm working on dial frequency 10147.6kHz, USB.

Beaconing is working well. However when I try to Send Email the LOGIN packet is transmitted but I get no response. Looking on aprs.fi I can see several stations received the packet. And WLNK-1 responded with the password challenge but my station didn't hear/receive/decode it. How can I determine the location of the responding WLNK-1 APRSlink station? Can I influence the WLNK-1 APRSlink station which responds?
Cheers,
Mike.