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I have VARA running both from Build-a-Pi,from the VARA.exe and from RMS Express. THis is for CMS contacts only. I want to get into some actual QSOs!! I note also that VNC/Chrome is pitifully slow. I have downloaded VarAC, and edited the Varac.ini to fill in the details. When I run wine VarAc.EXE, I get heaps of error messages, mainly related to X11 display. The VARA HF modem starts, then disappears, then re-appears. The VarAC window appears for about 1 second then disappears. Top shows Vara.exe taking about 75% CPU but nothing is happening. It looks like I might have to give up on the Pi and try using W11 on the laptop but the idea is to have all Ham apps on the Pi.
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Paul RodenhuisAuthorSuccess! After re-routing the USB cable from the Pi to the old W8.1 laptop, installing VARA and VarAC, I was ble to cal l CQ on 14.104.250.!!
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Do you see the TCP LED in green at the bottom of the VARA HF modem? If not, click "DISCONNECT MODEM" and then "CONNECT MODEM" on VarAC. For me, I need to do this every time I launch the app.
The modem works even though it shows "%CPU not available" in yellow. It's said to be a bug.
I use VARA HF+VarAC on RPi4 with a couple minor glitches like above which I can tolerate.
Gene
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