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Greetings All!!

I am trying to get VARAC to work over HF.....

Seem to have everything working EXCEPT that there is just no decode whatsoever, and nothing in any other posts seem to suggest why...

VARA HF and VarAC seem to talk to each other just fine -- I can see for example where VarAC polls VARA HF and gets its version number, I also tried to call cq and was able to see my transmit data (cq de kd7isf) on the VARA HF window...

Another oddity is that if I select monitor mode on the VARA HF window, its just a blank black box...

The waterfall nearly fills the waterfall box, well beyond the two red lines...

I can see (and hear) lots of varac data on the radio itself -- no way I'm the only one listening on 20m for an entire day!

the VARA HF VU meter bounces more or less with the s meter on the radio...

I have ensured windows firewall is not blocking communications between VarAC and VARA HF...

I can even see the BUSY indicator along with the BUSY ON (and then BUSY OFF) log entries in VarAC every time the s meter starts dancing (and I hear the varac tones)...

But VarAC will simply just NOT decode and show me ANY KIND OF RECEIVED DATA.....

Can anyone help figure this out?

I even tried changing the 08-03 and 08-04 menus to 1500 as suggested elsewhere -- and again, no change...

Setup is as follows:

win 10

Yaesu FT 891

FLrig 2.0.05

VARA HF 4.8.9

VarAC 10.2.1

Cat is connected by direct USB (virtual comport from factory embedded controller)

Audio/data is connected from rear din 6 to a generic usb audio card.

this same physical setup has worked for other modes -- just not this one.....

It seems really strange to be able to tx, but not get ANYTHING for rx despite a very nicely dancing waterfall...

Pls let me know if any logs or screenshots would help -- this is the sort of thing that just shouldn't happen.....

Thanks!!!!

Ray

KD7ISF