Deciding on appropriate VPN application for remote Ham radio station network

Rationale for this work was driven by need to create secure remote repository for contest log activities of radio amateurs (Hams) and remote access to Ham radio where data integrity would be protected using VPN. Owners of remote Ham radio stations have to consider overhead of specific technology such as VPN prior making decision to use it. In this paper are presented results of VPN performance measurement on different network types and different VPN applications.