Still No Winlink Connections (Pat->Direworlf->RaspPi->DigiRig->UV5R)

I am getting good audio levels (after attenuator hack) for APRS TX/RX via Direwolf 1.8 on my Raspberry Pi connected to my DigiRig Mobile at Baofeng UV5R HT connected to my Baotech VHF Amplifier and a Ground Plane Antenna in my attic. WSJTX seems to be running without issue as well.

I tried to get Winlink to work via Pat using packet ax.25+agwpe but like before PTT is very short and I get no connection. I added below to direwolf.conf, but no change. Any thoughts Baofeng owners that got it to work?

TXDELAY 500 # milliseconds before sending data (key-up delay)
TXTAIL 250 # milliseconds carrier tail after packet
SLOTTIME 10
PERSIST 64
FRACK 3000 # retry timer (3 seconds typical)
MAXFRAME 1 # max outstanding frames (AX.25)
RESPTIME 100
RETRY 5

If you have a Windows pc, try using your radio setup and your digirig with Winlink. If it works, continue debugging your Patlink / raspberry pi setup. Many things can go wrong with these setups and you need to isolate where the problem is.

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There are some good threads on here which might help you:

Latest mode-winlink topics - Digirig Forum

Latest baofeng-uv-5r topics - Digirig Forum

Latest software-direwolf topics - Digirig Forum

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