Check and see how much you are receiving in the Direwolf console window (where it logs every received and transmitted packet) (or in journalctl if you are running Direwolf as a service). It's amazing how much difference the antenna makes. And proper audio levels into the sound card feeding Direwolf.
For example, right now I am running an experiment between my base station APRS (on a dual-band base antenna mounted on top of the house's chimney with a 10-foot mast) and a mobile station I am constructing, presently connected to a second dual-band base antenna mounted on the sewer vent pipe on the same roof (about 12 feet lower, but still 15+ feet above the ground). The higher antenna with properly matched audio levels is getting about 3 times as many stations as the other one (where I can't turn the radio's speaker volume down enough to not overload the mike input of the sound card), and they are horizontally only about 12 feet apart.
Hope this helps.
Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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[email protected]Subject: [yaac-users] i think i am missing something
PAUL,
SINCE YOU ARE a linux person and have used yaac and direwolf
is it possible to send you an email or shall i just post the specifically directed questions to you?
i am good in qrz.com and email is good there.
i am using raspberry pi 5 yaac, direwolf and running open jdk 17.0.14.
but i think i should see more that what i am seeing now on yaac. i think my direwolf.conf is good.
Niece KA1ULN