Irad, thank you for your comments. A) Well, my idear was to enable a possibility to air an interest for a QSO with a specific region or country. It could take the form of a broadcast and is not really a CQ on the call frequency. Alternatively, it could perhaps be accomplished by a text field in the CQ call? B) I find VarAC ideal for rag-chew. Other digi modes serve the purpose of hunting callsigns, even more or less automatically. I am not too excited by a short rubberstamp QSO, where you get a few canned messages, and a 73. I may be alone with this view, and also lean towards that the quality rag-chew may develop from the intangible "chemistry" during the contact....however, I thought it would be nice to be able to signal: "I am here for a personal QSO"..... 73 Henrik

My 7300 also gave no isues with cat and the latest install….did you check if your com port has changed? 73 Henrik

Mike, my broadcast seems to work...have received and sent.....no acknowledgements returned to me, for the sent ones, though I have asked....kindly.... My two modems, monitor left and "main modem" right looks like this: It says disconnected, no mention of interface disabled. (I do not have winlink installed) For what it is worth.... 73, Henrik

Broadcast now works I opened port 8100 TCP in Windows firewall, rebooted PC and Broadcast now works.. At least, TX is initiated and a signal sent......and it is reported in the broadcast window: in windows 10, do the following: Go to firewall and network protection Click advanced settings Click inbound rules open port 8100 for TCP save and reboot. I named the rule: open 8100, and it looks like this: If there are any security concerns with this, please advice. 73 Henrik

Irad, checked that my modem was indeed rebooting when I attempted to broadcast: the log file looks like this: 21/11/2022 16:48:11 - Preparing to broadcast to ALL 21/11/2022 16:48:11 - Sending Async message: TO:ALL FROM:OZ6F Data:test 21/11/2022 16:48:13 - Error: Unable to send KISS message to VARA modem. Disconnecitng modem. 21/11/2022 16:48:13 - Unable to write data to the transport connection: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine. at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Write(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size) at VarAC.VarAC.command_varahf_kiss(TcpClient conn, Byte[] msg) 21/11/2022 16:48:13 - Restarting VARA modem 1/2 21/11/2022 16:48:13 - Disconnecting VARA modem... 21/11/2022 16:48:13 - Disconnected! 21/11/2022 16:48:13 - Error in mailbox_send_outbox_thread 21/11/2022 16:48:13 - Error: Unable to read data from command stream of VARA modem. Disconnecitng modem command stream. 21/11/2022 16:48:13 - Error: processing Modem data stream: Thread was being aborted. at System.Net.UnsafeNclNativeMethods.OSSOCK.recv(IntPtr socketHandle, Byte* pinnedBuffer, Int32 len, SocketFlags socketFlags) at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Receive(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags, SocketError& errorCode) at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Receive(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags) at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size) at VarAC.VarAC.b__590_2() 21/11/2022 16:48:13 - Thread was being aborted. at System.Net.UnsafeNclNativeMethods.OSSOCK.recv(IntPtr socketHandle, Byte* pinnedBuffer, Int32 len, SocketFlags socketFlags) at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Receive(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags, SocketError& errorCode) at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Receive(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags) at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size) at VarAC.VarAC.b__590_0() 21/11/2022 16:48:13 - Thread was being aborted. at System.Threading.Thread.SleepInternal(Int32 millisecondsTimeout) at System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(Int32 millisecondsTimeout) at VarAC.VarAC.b__590_5() 21/11/2022 16:48:13 - Unable to read data from data stream of VARA modem. Disconnecitng modem data stream. 21/11/2022 16:48:23 - Connecting VARA Main Modem Command interface... 21/11/2022 16:48:23 - Connecting VARA Main Modem KISS Command interface... 21/11/2022 16:48:23 - Connecting VARA Main Modem data stream... 21/11/2022 16:48:23 - Connecting VARA Monitor Modem Command interface... 21/11/2022 16:48:24 - Connecting VARA Monitor Modem data stream... 21/11/2022 16:48:25 - Failed to connect VARA Monitor modem 21/11/2022 16:48:25 - Connected to VARA modem 21/11/2022 16:48:25 - Setting Bandwith to 500Hz 21/11/2022 16:48:25 - Away status set to false 21/11/2022 16:48:25 - Setting away status to false (auto) 21/11/2022 16:48:25 - Error: Sending relay notification failed: Thread was being aborted. at VarAC.VarAC.command_varahf_kiss(TcpClient conn, Byte[] msg) at VarAC.VarAC.<>c__DisplayClass559_0.b__1() 21/11/2022 16:48:25 - VARA version: VARA HF v4.6.5 So who is blocking port 8100? Firewall in Windows, or my modem/router? 73

Thank you Irad, any simple way to check if the firewall intervenes with port 8100? 73

Windows install with rig control. VARA (4.6.5) and VarAC (6.2.4). frq: 14,105.00 "Broadcast send" does not activate TX, just says "Preparing to broadcast to G4..." in the log, after filling in the broadcast message window, Not working to specific call nor all. Have not received any broadcasts either. 73 OZ6F, Henrik