Bug reports

My ham club is doing Winter Field Day later this month with a special event callsign (W0W). Since VarAC uses registered members' personal callsigns, I'm wondering what the proper procedure would be? Thoughts: 1. Modify the CQ in some way (not sure how) to indicate Winter Field Day (WFD) using the registered call sign then pass the exchange in the body of a message. 2. Just call CQ then announce it's a WFD contact in the body of a message.

3. ? some other method.

Has VarAC been used in Field Day, if so, how was it handled?

I would like to use rigctld in combination with VarAC. Unfortunately whenever the frequency is switched the bandwidth is also changed to the smallest filter available. Running rigctld in verbose mode shows that rigctld receives three commands - Frequency - Mode - Bandwidth The log shows that the filter bandwidth should be set to 0 which results in selecting the smallest filter (250 Hz) available. This effect does not show up if VarAC is configured using CAT rather than Hamlib. I wonder whether this is a problem with VarAC or with rigctld.

I finally got the email up and running for smtp, but the Imap function failed.

Received the email sent to an external email account.

But how does one send email to the Winlink email capability?

I was operating on 10M. The CAT control file appears to be working properly and I have had several successful contacts. In this instance I made a contact. Exchanged a few messages and then did a disconnect. The disconnect completed. But VarAC stayed on the same slot/freq, the beacon showed paused, and the DISCONNECT and ABORT were grayed out. No way to force VarAC to believe the session was finished and go back to calling freq. I had to close the app and restart to get normal function restored.

The rig is Icom 7760, VarAC 13.0.1. Windows 11 25H2.

Doug / N3JXB