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I found another bug. I clicked on the “relay” button on the bottom right of the screen. The relay window came up, then I clicked on the call sign, the clicked “delete”. The program came up with an exception “index out of range”. There are 2 options, one to continue, the other to quit immediately. Both of the options work. The reason I’m having to delete it is because I have a contact that I have retrieved his swaying “async” message 5 times and I get the vmail, but his end never seems to realize I have retrieved it. I have no info on that issue. This notice is only about deleting the relay.

Thanks, K8DDD

In the cq calls in any band I dont receive anything so I connect the modem then click in cq but nothing, anyone can help please? Or I am doing something bad in the setting

73's OA2DG

I hate to bring up another bug I found, but here it is. I changed from emmcom to advanced. Changed over the the 40m calling freq and tested a few connections. Changed freq back to AmRRON calling freq and also back to emcomm. I then restarted my beacon there. Came back after a couple of hours and noticed that it was beaconing ever 15 min. I started this process using 180 minutes as a beacon time. Somewhere it defaulted back to 15 minutes.

Thanks,

Doug - K8DDD

TLDR: Feature to create a list of station calls and connect to each in turn to deliver the same short message.

Using VarAC HF for EMCOMM we've found that broadcast messages are, not surprisingly, pretty unreliable compared to VARA HF. Typical sequence is net control uses broadcast to ask for check-ins and stations use broadcast to announce their participation. That process is pretty unreliable.

As an alternative, we might have stations individually connect to net control using VARA HF at the start of the net to check in, give their call sign and tactical role. (Not on a calling frequency, obviously).

Net control would assemble a list of the checked in stations. The first use of the feature would be to send the list of stations and brief net instructions to each station in turn using VARA HF.

Typically, individual stations would be instructed to connect directly with each other…

Would it be possible to be able to link a message to then be displayed public on web somewhere? We can now send E mail so could there be a way to tell VarAC to post a message online somewhere? This would be good for Emcom and also to keep status updates to non licenced operators.

i.e. Message posted online '' All ok, im now at Pos GPS XXXXX '' or '' M0BLH now on air at 14.105 '' for example.

As we now have E mail gateways, I wonder if it would be possible to send a text message to a mobile phone number. I can see how this would be an excellent feature for Emcoms, and a good way to keep in contact with non Licenced holders like family and friends.

Hello,

When starting then exiting VarAC and Vara (in any order) it leaves a vara background process running (with no UI), which must be killed with Task Manager (Windows 10). If not killed, the next run dialogs "Error: another copy of VARA is running from this folder." So I have to run Task Manager and kill the running background process each time before running VarAC and/or VARA.

What I've tried: in Settings, uncheck "Automatically start VARA" then start VARA manually, then VarAC, then exit VarAC then VARA, in any order, and it leaves the background process running. Also, clicking "Disconnect modem" before exiting still leaves the background process running. Also tried taking ownership of the executables, and running as administrator, makes not difference.

Starting and then exiting VARA alone does not create the background process. Using VARA in Winlink does not create the background process. Otherwise I'd say it's a…

Using the KM4ACK install video got it to start, launch VARA and get exception error and stops. Here is report, a bit over my head.

I am resetting up VarAC. I haven't used it for over a year. when I downloaded the new version none of the settings carried over. I took I while to get the CAT Control settings working I had to go to the Radio and under Operating Setting turn CAT RTS to OFF then the Cat worked. My final Problem is that when I send A CQ or TUNE there seems to be no TX Audio. I turned on the Monitor and also watch the Waterfall and almost nothing there. I can go to RMS Express and using VARA HF it sends and receives fine.

Any Suggestions.