VARAWatch – Wine & Box86 Socket-loss Workaround

The VARA process running within the Wine & box86 emulator environment on the Raspberry Pi4 has a slight issue when VARA TNC dies or is terminated manually or restarted via systemd- this is a workaround for it.

LinBPQ: portfreq – FREQS Node Command

New how-to article: setting up a new node command to provide the current radio frequencies of all ports to a node user

Where to find Packet on 10 meter band (EU)

New article providing information about the experimental 10 meter band setup for multimode (VARA/ARDOP/Packet AX300+FX25) operation

Running Interactive External Scripts as an Application in LinBPQ

New article demonstration how to add your own external application to the node with a simple Node Search application provided as an example.

VARA, ARDOP and QtSoundModem as System Services

New article – making the setup run smoothly by leveraging the power of systemd process management to monitor and control the various TNCs with remote provisioning of their interfaces for convenient visual monitoring.

BPQ32 Rig Control – VOX and/or CAT PTT

An additional segment for the VARA and native Linux TNC modem tutorial focusing on getting them working together on a single audio interface as well as control the radio PTT keying simultaneously across all TNCs

RPI4: VARA & Syslog

New Article: Leveraging the native Linux rsyslogd to monitor the VARA TNC

RPI4 Trifecta: VARA, Packet & ARDOP – One Audio Interface

A major new development for anyone interested in running a Raspberry Pi4 with VARA, ARDOP and Packet modem QtSoundModem together on a single audio interface. The last hurdle standing between a full Linux integration of the popular and extremely powerful but Windows-only x86 application VARA on very low power ARM architecture has now been crossed […]