Anyone experimenting with varAC ham radio digital mode? It would be an excellent digital mode in the event of infrastructure down event. Has keyboard to keyboard, vmail(like emails over air), beaconing, ability to relay or query others for last heard time of a station. Unfortunately the Vara modem is not open source😞. It's free to use but can do faster speeds (higher bandwidth) with the purchase of the license. But it's the best like this ive seen so far.

https://www.varac-hamradio.com/

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NR5P is my call btw and I've been leaving my beacon on 20 meters VarAC calling frequency all the time. So if you are using it from me a vmail #varac #ham radio

I looked briefly at free and it didn't look like it was playing nice with my radio so I moved on. Far more complicated than js8call and I don't see the benefit.

I should look at js8call. I guess Varac can transfer files which js8call maybe can't do? But realistically that's probably not very useful over hf

Not until they change the baud rate limit to a bandwidth limit.

I tried js8call. VarAC and vara I really prefer a lot more.

#grownostr btw 😁

Just want to send sats with my Baofeng

Have you tried the vhf uhf version? I've been meaning to try that.