Re: n8jja/Pat-Vara for VARA software modems
On Freitag, 2. September 2022 00:36:15 -04 tony mancill wrote:
> Hi Debian Hams,
>
> I am packaging version 0.13.0 [1] of the pat Winlink client, which
> among other improvements now has support for VARAHF and VARAFM [2].
> We can either create a package for n8jja/Pat-Vara or patch support
> for it out of the pat build.
>
> If there are users of VARA, please speak up and I will go that route.
> (But I wanted to coordinate on-list before going to the effort to have
> a package go through NEW for a feature that maybe no one will use.)
>
> Cheers,
> tony KG7IEL
>
> [1] https://github.com/la5nta/pat/releases/tag/v0.13.0
> [2] https://github.com/n8jja/Pat-Vara
Hi Tony,
I don't know if I understand correctly.
For emergency communication I use VARAHF and Winlink on a MS-Win10 PC.
That is the only 'real' use on that computer and I would like to have an
opportunity to use the whole shebang on my Linux machine. No matter if
partly with Wine or directly on hardware.
I tried Win10 on a virtual machine, but at least within the VM the MS-OS
is unable to distinguish between analog and digital audio ports. Digital
ports work OK but it also streams digital audio over the analog ports no
matter how I tweaked the setup. So I had to setup another computer with
plain Win10 just for the purpose of Winlink and VARAHF. :-/
I eagerly observe progress with Winlink and/or VARA on Linux but have to
dig more into the matter to be of help testing.
73 de Eike KY4PZ / ZP6CGE
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