I am happy to announce the installation of my new public VARA FM WIDE Gateway in the MSP area. Located immediately NW of the Twin Cities, it sits in an excellent close-but-not-too-close location in Rogers, MN with a 2 meter yagi pointed directly at the Twin Cities.
In my testing with my client in Wide mode, I was able to work well with level 9 (14144 bps).
I tested my client in Narrow mode as well, and as advertised VARA FM on the RMS Station negotiated to Narrow Mode and had exchanges at levels of 9 (11162) and 10 (12750) during the test.
For the Packet TNC to support the PTT interfaces for the DRA-36, UZ7HO's SoundModem replaced Dire Wolf as the software TNC.