I'd like to revisit my earlier post about ping sent versus received values. See https://www.varac-hamradio.com/forum/varac-hf-discussion-forum/ping-sent-vs-received-values. I recently got bored and went back to the JS8 mode. Also went briefly back to FT8. I don't recommend this due to emotional distress. 😏 JS8 is based on FT8 except that one station can send many frames in sequence rather than an even odd sequence. I found in both modes SNR values both sent and received were much more equal compared to VarAC. My radio and computer hardware is identical with both JS8 and VarAC. I have to believe there's something wrong with my VarAC settings. Earlier responders concluded it's my high noise is due to being in an urban area, that I don't hear the other station as well as they hear me. If this were the case, then I'd experience same the results on JS8 as well. Often the other station sends as a slower speed than I do likely because my impaired reception causes VARA HF to throttle the speed down. I'm considering trying out WinLink to see if the same issue exists there. It also uses VARA HF. Sorry to keep repeating this topic. But my comparison with JS8 is leaving me unconvinced that my issue is my high noise environment. de Steve N6VL

My sent ping values are almost always lower than my received values. This would seem to indicated I'm not receiving other stations as well as they are receiving me. Often this is by several dB difference. I posted this on the Facebook but got replies from reduce my power to one way propagation. My reasoning is there could something wrong in my setup. My rx audio levels are at 50% or so on the VU meter. It's rare that I hear the other station better than they hear me. My power is 50 watts into a doublet or a delta loop depending on upper or lower HF bands. de Steve N6VL

Both WSJT-X and JS8Call have an API available using UDP ports. I've been able to write C# code to access these ports and create my own desktop extension apps. I'd like to know if there's a backdoor to VarAC to subscribe to internal events? I don't actually have any use cases yet, but always like to explore an app's capabilities this way. de Steve N6VL