I recommend the NanoVNA, which is about $50.

It's definitely not top of the line, and it does take a bit of playing with to get used to. However it has a heck of a lot of features for the price point.

There is also the TinySA. Which is a similar idea as the NanoVNA, but it's for spectrum analysis instead of an antenna analysis.

Even with a HT, you'll probably have a blast on a summit. Line of sight for miles and miles could mean lots of contacts!

Very cool!

I have an RTL-SDR that lets me do that too. I also have aircrack-ng on one of my Linux installs, for research purposes.

Thank you very much!

In my defense, it hasn't been used in a long time.

But the best way to learn is by doing. And I had interest in ethical hacking/penetration testing

Hello! Nice to meet you!

I recently bought arborist throw line for POTA use. It helps to get the antenna into the trees.

Might be worth a look, if you're interested in that. I bought from Weaver leather.

I do something similar with my G90!

I have an (Apache?) case from Harbor Freight. It contains the radio, 10ft of power cord, the mic, 18ft of coax, and a dirt-cheap CW key.

Love the look of yours!

If you have a Linux distro installed, you could install Pat. It's an email client. It works with some of WinLinks stuff, if I remember correctly.

What radio do you have and what issue do you have? If you don't mind my asking

If the X6100 runs Linux, it's possible you could install Pat onto it!

Maybe you need more bonding and grounding?

I know my setup isn't ideal in those regards. I bought some tinned copper straps, but I still need to install them.

For cooling do you use air, water, or both?

I want to run a home media server. Something like Jellyfin probably. Maybe a Minecraft server too.

I also interested in rolling my own VPN. So far I've just use an SSH tunnel for traffic tunneling.

For a little while, I had a tiny web page running on a raspberry pi at my house.

I also used that raspberry pi for the SSH tunnel.

Raspberry Pi 1 B+

Fair enough!

Still an interesting idea for possible future endeavors.

I want to grab one of the new models and make a portable station out of it for doing digital work. Mostly for stuff like POTA.

Personally I use a DigiRig with my G90. Laptop running WinLink Express<->VARA HF<->DigiRig<->Cables<->G90

I have heard of the X6100 running FT8 natively. I'm sure it could run some version of WinLink, but I'm not sure if it could do VARA specifically. Last I knew VARA (the modem itself) was Windows only.

If the X6100 uses x86, you could probably just use WINE. If it's something like ARM, you'd need WINE inside an emulator.

I imagine there's other options too, like packet/ARDOP/etc.

I have personally never done WinLink over VHF/UHF, although it is a goal of mine someday. (Doesn't help that the nearest VHF/UHF nodes to me presently are at least 30 miles away.)

Do you have any specific questions, I'd be happy to help anytime!

If you don't mind sharing, what know-how and equipment do you have in regards to Lemmy?

I like learning :)

That's very cool!

It's cool to run servers at home.