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VARA is connected via a dedicated PCI device, this is is PCI mapped to a windows virtual machine. By mapping PCI devices directly to VMs, removes any latency in passing USB from host to vm which is required for VARA.
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By connecting all 3 devices to LinBPQ, this allows us to route any traffic from each RF source to any LinBPQ application.
LinBPQ Applications
APRS provides access to the APRS gateway, additionally, VE3LSR also provides emergency broadcasts outbound via APRS bulletins.
Packet and VARA provides access to
- VE3LSR: BPQ Netrom node
- VE3LSR-2: VE7CC DXCluster
- VE3LSR-10: Winlink via RMS
Notes
While we attempted to use VARA on Linux using multiple different methods, we found this to be unreliable, and decided to use a Windows VM instead.
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