[aprssig] Another Road Trip with HF APRS-over-VARA

[Stephen H Smith]

I am departing on a cross-country road trip from Michigan to southern 
California on Monday 22 September. Expecting to arrive in Los Angeles, CA on 
Friday 26 Sept.  The return trip will be a week later -- 3 October to 8 October.

I will be experimenting again with HF APRS-over-VARA, mostly on 40 meters this 
time, during the trip, I may try 30 meters from time to time if 40 sounds dead.

The mobile setup is the same as in previous tests -- Yaesu FT-891 at about 50 
watts output into a Quicksilver Radio "QuickStick" ham-stick-style slim mobile 
whip.  UIview linked to VARA running on a Panasonic Toughbook laptop with a USB 
RigLink <http://catmeters.com/#USBRigLink>  interface.

The usual two-meter beacons on 144.39 will use *WA8LMF* (no SSID)
The HF 30 or 40-meter APRS-over-VARA beacons will use *WA8LMF-3*

Because APRS-over-VARA has been so overwhelmingly superior to traditional 
packet-based APRS on HF in previous tests, I will not bother with conventional 
300-baud AX.25 packet-based APRS on HF at all. *
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Details on using APRS-over-VARA is here:

<http://WA8LMF.net/VARA/APRSoverVARA/index.htm>


General topics on APRS over VARA here:

<http://WA8LMF.net/VARA/index.htm>


Live off-the-air maps of APRS-over-VARA activity monitored from my home QTH in 
central Michigan are here:

<http://WA8LMF.net/map>


Real time tracker of WA8LMF based on 2-meter and direct-to-Internet reports 
from cell phone is here:

<http://WA8LMF.net/Tracker>


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Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
MS Teams::        WA8LMF
EchoLink:  Node #  14400  [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]
Home Page: http://wa8lmf.net

"Studio B" Ham Shack on Wheels
<http://WA8LMF.net/Aliner>

-- APRS over VARA  --
<http://wa8lmf.net/VARA/APRSoverVARA>


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