Have had the opportunity to use NBEMS on 30m and would offer the following observations:
. I like how Vbdigi , flarq, and the email software sylpheed work together. I set up sylpheed to one of my email addresses and it looks like I can receive mail via Vbdigi, and easily bounce it over to the internet. Haven't tried writing any "mail rules" with sylpheed to do that semi automatically yet. . Vbdigi works well as a small, simple stand-alone piece to use for PSK MFSK and RTTY. Menu is intuitive and easy to use. . Not crazy over the flarq file and mail transfer system. While ARQ, the packet size is huge and would result in endless repeats under anything other than ideal conditions. Sending mail , the software would break down a 1K test message into 2 , or 3 packets at the most. Using HF, the time taken to send one packet would be very subject to the usual QSB/QRM/QRN etc which on a large packet would likely result in a repeat. Smaller packet sizes would improve the software very much . . File transfer using Flarq was slower than Multipsk ALE400, using PSK31. Would be much slower with any repeats. Am interested in further experiments and look forward to meeting anyone interested on 80-20M John VE5MU
