Category Digital Modes

Setting up a new 44Net-Connect VPN tunnel is required before following this guide. This next section is completely optional and requires a few things. First, we’re going to create a dedicated 44Net network and a new LXC in Proxmox. Next,…

What’s 44Net? 44Net is simply a collection of IP version 4 addresses on the public internet. The 44.0.0.0/9 and 44.128.0.0/10 networks are put aside strictly for amateur radio use and are managed by the ARDC, or Amateur Radio Digital Communications…

Why It Doesn’t Work The Yaesu FT-710 HF transceiver contains a non-standard and possibly emulated CM-108 USB audio interface that allows working digital modes without any need for an external sound card. Simply plug the USB into your PC of…

Getting a full packet station up and running on Linux is frankly terrible. It involves setting up a lot of very powerful, but complicated software that all but seasoned Linux experts would struggle with. To make matters worse, because the…

Here’s a tutorial to get Vara FM or HF up and running as easily as possible on Linux. Other guides have you installing dlls by hand, or using Winetricks. None of this is necessary any longer, and as a matter…

Follow this guide AFTER following Packet Radio Basics with Software TNC. Vara is a WAY faster way to upload and download data from a Winlink or packet node. Created by EA5HVK, Vara comes in a number of varieties. The type…

Welcome to a guide to getting set up as quickly and easily as possible in packet radio. First, let’s define a few things: What hardware do you need to get started? There are two different ways to get started, either…