First Time Using Lemmy
First Time Using Lemmy
I live in upstate New York, I have a general class license, and this is my first time using Lemmy (or any federated social for that matter).
My mobile rig is a VR-N7500 "50W" VHF/UHF. It uses Bluetooth control from my phone, and it does APRS.
My QTH rig is a Xiegu G90 on a 40m EFHW powered by micro solar. I mainly do FT8, as well as a little VARA HF WinLink. (I'm a bit mic shy and my antenna setup isn't that great.)
I'm interested in POTA (and maybe SOTA).
Hope to meet some friendly folk!
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How do you do the VARA WinLink? It is something I am interested in playing with on VHF and HF. I think the X6100 can do it natively, but I have a digirig device for VHF.
Personally I use a DigiRig with my G90. Laptop running WinLink Express<->VARA HF<->DigiRig<->Cables<->G90
I have heard of the X6100 running FT8 natively. I'm sure it could run some version of WinLink, but I'm not sure if it could do VARA specifically. Last I knew VARA (the modem itself) was Windows only.
If the X6100 uses x86, you could probably just use WINE. If it's something like ARM, you'd need WINE inside an emulator.
I imagine there's other options too, like packet/ARDOP/etc.
I have personally never done WinLink over VHF/UHF, although it is a goal of mine someday. (Doesn't help that the nearest VHF/UHF nodes to me presently are at least 30 miles away.)
Do you have any specific questions, I'd be happy to help anytime!
Yeah I used natively wrong. I meant without needing something like a digirig in the middle. Connected directly to the computer.
I actually managed VHF Winlink using the digirif and a baofeng, but man it was unreliable. Going to try it with my mobile QYT KT908Plus and see if its any better.
I would love to use my linux chromebook and the X6100 box to make a mobile packet station, but im not really sure where to start.
If you have a Linux distro installed, you could install Pat. It's an email client. It works with some of WinLinks stuff, if I remember correctly.
I used PAT for my VHF winlink. I like it!
If the X6100 runs Linux, it's possible you could install Pat onto it!
I've seen people override the firmware and install linux on the X6100, but I am hesitant to do that with such an expensive radio.
Fair enough!
Still an interesting idea for possible future endeavors.