JamesB
VarAC looks interesting for radio chat. It's a bit late to go down the research rabbit hole tonight though.
Feb 1, 2023 at 11:11pmWeb
Show threadJamesBFeb 1, 2023
"Buy" software? What is this shittery?
Show threadTA4KHRFeb 1, 2023
@mw1cgg yet another closed source thing to avoid.
Show threadTA4KHRFeb 1, 2023
@mw1cgg (ditto patent encumbered DRM)
Show threadJamesBFeb 2, 2023
@M0KHR There is that however a cursory search last night showed that people are working on a FOSS version. Apparently OFDM is hard.
Show threadTA4KHRFeb 2, 2023
@mw1cgg Is there an open spec, or are they trying to reverse engineer it? Latter can be a problem.
Show threadJamesBFeb 2, 2023
@M0KHR I think it's meant to be an alternative to VARA, but still using OFDM.
Show threadJeromeFeb 2, 2023
@mw1cgg It appears to be Windows only. I am still surprised by the amount of radio amateur software that depends on Windows.
Show thread2E0LNE DanFeb 2, 2023
@dl2jml @mw1cgg indeed I'm so glad I found QDMR.
Makes programming my anytone much easier
Show thread2E0LNE DanFeb 2, 2023
@mw1cgg I looked at it, but as I run Linux and don't fancy paying $70 for the codec I think I will stick with JS8call for that sort of functionality