Re: Cornell University Conducting Ongoing Realtime HF Propagation Studies, Steve can you point me to any proposal or system details? My searching (starting with the FCC and Air Force documents you show, plus the Cornell Univ website) didn't reveal any of the technical details.
And about Starlink, I installed the terminal many months ago in Friday Harbor. At first the coverage was just too spotty for reliable home use (we have evergreen tree issues so the view of the sky is limited the entire year.) But in the past few months this has dramatically improved, I assume due to more satellites being in orbit. I have now disconnected the ADSL connection and am using Starlink exclusively. It's working quite well.
Paul - Unfortunately I have no other info about the study. I was surprised to learn that you are using Starlink. I thought all San Juan Islands residents had access to universal fiber to the premises?
Fiber access? Sure if you can get enough neighbors to each pony up kilobucks for the install. At my Occidental CA place there was some program in place that subsidized an area-wide install, so we do have Gbit fiber . Starlink isn't as good as that, but it's way better than what we had before.
Nov 26, 2023·edited Nov 26, 2023Liked by Steve Stroh N8GNJ
The fact that users and developers are willing to jump through so many hoops and make hack fixes for VARA speaks volumes about its effectiveness.
Varanny looks like a well built addition to VARA to enhance its capabilities and I commend the developer. I really like that it's open sourced as well. But isn't it a shame all of this development time and work around fixes are all the result of the closed source software.
I know developers are entitled to do what they wish with their own IP.
But I just think it's a shame the amount of hours sunk into the several popular vara add-ons to add addition to the software that would have taken a fraction if it were a group project. And it all really just increases the commercial value of the product with no financial benefits to the developer. Great work on the project if the developer is reading this. The community appreciates your efforts to patch the shortcommings of VARA itself. And keep up the great work Steve. I promise I'll mention Zero Retries when I get back in the game here soon.
Billu - You make a good point, but VARA works well, better than most other systems we have access to in Amateur Radio, and no one has yet come up with a system with equivalent performance. There is one project I'm tracking that has good potential for HF, and for an equivalent of VARA FM's 25 kbps speed, perhaps MMDVM-TNC's 19.2 kbps or the stretch goal of 38.4 kbps with Forward Error Correction... all open source, will get us an open source equivalent of VARA FM.
Re: Cornell University Conducting Ongoing Realtime HF Propagation Studies, Steve can you point me to any proposal or system details? My searching (starting with the FCC and Air Force documents you show, plus the Cornell Univ website) didn't reveal any of the technical details.
And about Starlink, I installed the terminal many months ago in Friday Harbor. At first the coverage was just too spotty for reliable home use (we have evergreen tree issues so the view of the sky is limited the entire year.) But in the past few months this has dramatically improved, I assume due to more satellites being in orbit. I have now disconnected the ADSL connection and am using Starlink exclusively. It's working quite well.
-Paul / wb6cxc
Paul - Unfortunately I have no other info about the study. I was surprised to learn that you are using Starlink. I thought all San Juan Islands residents had access to universal fiber to the premises?
Fiber access? Sure if you can get enough neighbors to each pony up kilobucks for the install. At my Occidental CA place there was some program in place that subsidized an area-wide install, so we do have Gbit fiber . Starlink isn't as good as that, but it's way better than what we had before.
The fact that users and developers are willing to jump through so many hoops and make hack fixes for VARA speaks volumes about its effectiveness.
Varanny looks like a well built addition to VARA to enhance its capabilities and I commend the developer. I really like that it's open sourced as well. But isn't it a shame all of this development time and work around fixes are all the result of the closed source software.
I know developers are entitled to do what they wish with their own IP.
But I just think it's a shame the amount of hours sunk into the several popular vara add-ons to add addition to the software that would have taken a fraction if it were a group project. And it all really just increases the commercial value of the product with no financial benefits to the developer. Great work on the project if the developer is reading this. The community appreciates your efforts to patch the shortcommings of VARA itself. And keep up the great work Steve. I promise I'll mention Zero Retries when I get back in the game here soon.
Billu - You make a good point, but VARA works well, better than most other systems we have access to in Amateur Radio, and no one has yet come up with a system with equivalent performance. There is one project I'm tracking that has good potential for HF, and for an equivalent of VARA FM's 25 kbps speed, perhaps MMDVM-TNC's 19.2 kbps or the stretch goal of 38.4 kbps with Forward Error Correction... all open source, will get us an open source equivalent of VARA FM.