diff --git a/applications/apertif/designs/apertif_unb1_fn_beamformer/src/vhdl/node_apertif_unb1_fn_beamformer.vhd b/applications/apertif/designs/apertif_unb1_fn_beamformer/src/vhdl/node_apertif_unb1_fn_beamformer.vhd
index 4a8974e733a2a2af05a1be5002b3a2b91b40a2b5..18539336556d4243ce438879c327ae4c8589fe3c 100644
--- a/applications/apertif/designs/apertif_unb1_fn_beamformer/src/vhdl/node_apertif_unb1_fn_beamformer.vhd
+++ b/applications/apertif/designs/apertif_unb1_fn_beamformer/src/vhdl/node_apertif_unb1_fn_beamformer.vhd
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ ENTITY node_apertif_unb1_fn_beamformer IS
     g_sim                     : BOOLEAN := FALSE;
     g_sim_level               : NATURAL := 0;
     g_use_data_buf            : BOOLEAN := TRUE;  -- Add a data buffer parallel to the BF.  Does not affect other functions.
-    g_use_bf_offload          : BOOLEAN := TRUE;  -- Offload BF out(0) datapath to 1GbE UDP TX port. Does not affect other functions.
+    g_use_bf_offload          : BOOLEAN := FALSE;  -- Offload BF out(0) datapath to 1GbE UDP TX port. Does not affect other functions.
     g_use_bf                  : BOOLEAN := TRUE;  -- FALSE does not instantiate a BF instance.
     g_use_block_gen           : BOOLEAN := FALSE; -- TRUE overrides terminal output and feeds BG output to the BF instead.
     -- Stream properties