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Henrik OZ9EEE
Henrik OZ9EEE

Beacon away/present

I believe it could be very good, if Beacons also “signals”, if the operator is away or present.



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dl4no
3 days ago

This would only make sense if VarAC could automatically sense somehow that the OP is around.


For example at my station this would not work: I use alert sounds for CQ, connect etc. to be informed. I am hardly ever in the shack, but hear the sounds for example in my home office. When I am inclined to bother with the hobby I switch to the VNC window or open my Android tablet to look at the VarAC window.


Quite some hams know that I have VarAC running on 40/20m most of the time and try to connect me directly for a quick chat or so. They know that I only react when I like to - this is hobby, not real life. But it has worked quite often.


You can do much more than most think with an "idle" VarAC station. For example I am a member of a small group of EU and NA hams that exchange comments about the previous night on 40m. For example I could lift my 40m dipole recently by 2 m. From weeks of observations we derived that this made my signal about 3 dB louder in NA.

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