I use Winlink at my home, my in-laws, or the vacation house most of the time. As a result there are half-a-dozen gateways that get the most use. These can be saved as aliases in Pat-Winlink pretty quickly with a little information gathering. First, you need to know how Pat-Winlink can read your favorite station..
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As I continue to add capabilities I’ve learned that different software, for reasons I yet to understand, require different audio levels. WSJT-X requires audio set to one level. Vara another. Direwolf benefits from a couple different levels depending on what I’m doing (YAAC or Pat for example) and how well I can hear stations nearby.
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There are two ways to manage memory of the FT5DR in the ADMS-14 software. The backup.dat file on the memory card or cloning to/from the device itself with a cable. The cable presents itself as a Com port in Windows normally. Since I am running Linux I need to map one of the serial port.
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Chirp and Chirp-Next are still lacking support for the FT5DR and even though I’d rather use one of those I decided to load the official ADMS 14 software on to my Pi. Since Wine was already installed (with Vara) I figured at worst there would be just a couple tweaks required. I wasn’t disappointed. Started.
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A recipe for installing Vara on some unsupported OS’s. KI7POL devised a script that will install Vara, Vara FM, and if you so choose, RMS Winlink, on to Raspberry Pi’s. You can find it HERE. The hangup for me was it supports a precious few operating systems. I run Kali at the office, at home,.
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ALSA is powerful. Incredibly flexible. Because of that it’s almost guaranteed to be complicated. I spend a lot of time plugging and unplugging different audio devices into my machines in different places. The way ALSA identifies sound cards (USB, built-in, HDMI, whatever) is that the first one detected becomes card0. The next is card1. The.
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