yes, for your americans that is so. here in northern europe it is different. the thing is, it would not allow me to change to a colon. The software has decided to put dots in there, and it insists keeping dots there. Most likely, because it takes the date notation, or "locale"-information from the PCs setup , which naturally is setup to work for finnish people. If you can post a few lines of how your actual configuration file looks like, then i can try to bypass the GUI of vara, and edit the configuration file directly, and see if the software would accept it. check my windows taskbar - how the time is written there - then you understand what i mean:

yea, software prepopulates the colon or dot in my case, it will not allow me to change the prepopulated delimiter. 73 - .. -- ---

already did 73

software prepopulates the delimiter - in your case colon, in my case its a dot - in both cases the user is not at liberty to change it ; its depending on the notation used in your country, and your PCs configuration. I live in Finland, northern EU - and here the notations look like this:

well, the single dot is not my idea, its the prepopulated character - which is also identical to the displaid format in the error message.... The software does not allow me to change it either, it enforces the "period" way of notation probably due to the european-locale on my pc.

at the time i was at the top version. (to me it is common sense to be updated before complaining, its also common sense to mention the version in a bug report... which.. umm i failed doing ..duh) However, people stopped using "pinpoint" in broadcasts - at least i dont see "pinpoint" software related messages in broadcast anymore. So the problem is solved one way or the other, and it is hard to reproduce at this time anymore. 73, 7imo

I have a much more stupid question regarding the sceduler: I cant seem to satisfy the software´- i am getting this - what is my mistake? cheers, timo oh8xat

i dont expect it to, and i dont use that software - but unfortunatelky other people do - and now i have garbled characters in my broadcast window, instead anything useful. My screen garbage is now standard, and there is nothing i can do about it despite going QRT This is what i see every day ... dont get me wrong irad, i am not reporting this as a varac bug - i dont blame you - i just want to find out why are people doing this am i the only one negatively affected by it, is there something i can try before i go QRT for good on varac 73, timo

I wish people would deliver a straight answer to a very specific question instead of replying RTFM. a comprehensive manual is a nice thing, and the writers and translators deserve our appreciation and respect. But that is no reason not to simply explain how to relay a message via 3rd party to destination. W/O forcing someone to comb through a manual, and maybe still not finding what they wanted to know. It would certainly be quicker not to have to comb through walls of text for that single sentence of information that would save the day. If you dont know, dont say - if you do know then just explain in your own words , be a helpful elmer. Do not tell people to RTFM - i dont think that would be the purpouse of this forum. 73, OH8XAT