VARA HF

A reminder: the VARA applications are not open source.

They are proprietary software and to gain full speed you will have to buy a license of €64 (as of today, 2025-05-02).

2025

Winlink on Android with WoAD

19 January 2025·792 words·4 mins

Amateur-Radio Android Archlinux Command Line Digirig Linux Mobilinkd Networking Packet Radio Portable VARA FM VARA HF Winlink

Since I moved from iOS to Android I had to look for another App to test a small Winlink setup. The thumbnail was created with Google AI (Imagen 3).

2024

Winlink on a Windows computer and a TX-500

1 June 2024·Updated: 19 January 2025·1312 words·7 mins

Amateur-Radio Winlink Portable Digirig Mobilinkd Packet Radio VARA FM VARA HF GPS

For anyone interested and mainly for my notes archive, this is the setup that I currently have set up on my Windows equipment for Winlink. I started taking notes on the Microsoft Surface 2 Go and ended up installing all this on the HP Elitebook 830 G6 (which has an integrated GPS sensor).

Packet radio, VARA (FM+HF), Mobilinkd, Digirig and the SignaLink USB on Linux

30 March 2024·Updated: 2 May 2025·2205 words·11 mins

Amateur-Radio Packet Radio VARA FM VARA HF Winlink Digirig Mobilinkd Signalink SDR

Some basic configuration of my HF and VHF/UHF rigs to participate in the Winlink world…

2023

Winlink on my iPhone with RadioMail

5 November 2023·Updated: 19 January 2025·932 words·5 mins

Amateur-Radio Winlink Radiomail iOS Mobilinkd Packet Radio Portable VARA FM VARA HF

Finally there is an absolutely portable way to operate Winlink.

2021

Running Winlink and VARA on Linux

3 October 2021·281 words·2 mins

Amateur-Radio Linux Winlink VARA FM VARA HF Windows Emulation Wine

A quick and dirty summary of my Winlink installation on my linux laptop.