Thanks, Irad and Gary. That clears it up. I’ll look forward to seeing this improvement in the future, but no rush.

My bad. Forgot to attach screenshots. Here you are.

Thanks. Successfully solved it by manipulating sqlite. Gene

Thanks for your reply, Irad. Visiting back the backed up log files, it "was" persistent. But once I upgraded to 11.4.0, I no longer observe the error. It may happen when the app finds a new version, but I'm not sure. Will keep eye on it, and revisit here with a debug mode log, if I see it again. Thanks! Gene - JI1BQW

I forgot to mention that I have "LinuxCompatibilityMode=ON." Gene.

Please ignore my previous post. The issue appears to have resolved itself this morning. It was highly likely a problem on the PSKReporter side. Gene

I observed the same issue. The self-report does not appear to be reflected on PSKReporter when operating on 6m. VarAC seems to have logged the self-report correctly, just as it does on other bands, so this might be an issue on the PSKReporter side—but I can't say for sure. Here are relevant excerpts from my VarAC.log: == When 10m == 22/05/2025 01:16:27 - Changing frequency: user selection from dropdown menu. 22/05/2025 01:16:33 - Sending beacons every 15 minutes 22/05/2025 01:16:43 - Sending beacon 22/05/2025 01:17:28 - PSKReporter self report: Logged successfully <- Reflected on PSKReporter 22/05/2025 01:17:28 - PSKReporter: Sending accumulated records == When 6m == 22/05/2025 01:35:23 - Changing frequency: user selection from dropdown menu. 22/05/2025 01:35:48 - Sending beacons every 15 minutes 22/05/2025 01:35:48 - Sending beacon 22/05/2025 01:36:23 - PSKReporter self report: Logged successfully <- Not eflected on PSKReporter 22/05/2025 01:36:23 - PSKReporter: Sending accumulated records JI1BQW - Gene

I completely understand your pain. I remember I had extreme difficulty to have people in the single-byte world understand the importance of I18N, L10N, multibyte character sets, international keyboards and etc., etc. three and more decades ago. But now it has become a common practice. I believe this will be fixed soon, if it is a defect in the code, but I can't tell. As Gary suggested above, you may want to report it in the Bug section of this forum to expedite the solution.

Not sure if this is the cause, but in my case, the delimiter between hh and mm is a colon ':' and it works. It's strange that it is pre-populated and can't change. Maybe the version? I'm using the latest 10.1.0.

Go to the QSO tab and set existing folders to "Incoming files directory" and "Outgoing files directory" in the "File Transfer" section. I hope it solves your issue. --Gene

I forgot to state in the original post that I'm using the latest versions of the VARA modem (4.8.5) and VarAC (8.6.2). Switching between the tabuler view and the non-tabuler view did not help. Thanks in advance. Gene.

Isn't it this that was introduced in the VARA Modem 4.8.3?  I've been seeing more frequent busy indicators than before since I upgraded the modem.  But in my case, it's not constant on. You may want to see how it changes after rolling it back to an earlier version of the modem.   v4.8.3 (07/02/2024)  ...   Improvements in Busy detection ... Gene (JI1BQW)

Okay, NP. I can live with it. Thanks! Gene - JI1BQW

Hi, I've been running two instances of VarAC on one PC by having two separate VarAC folders, rather than one. I now want to merge it into one folder following the instructions here. I'm almost done, but one thing. Is there a way to merge two different existing VarAC.db's into one?

Thanks, Irad. Understood. I would be able to live with the configurable wait time. Gene

Great to see more JA callsigns on the pskreporter for VARAC. Gene / JI1BQW

Just my guess. You set the wine sound to alsa. ALSA does not let two separate apps access one sound card at a time. If one VARA modem accesses a sound device, another instance cannot do the same device. What happens if you run the main VARA only without a monitor?

If you have set your Wine to use ALSA, you may want to try "alsamixer" from a command line terminal.

Hi, You seem to have been caught by a wine/.net trap. Been there done that. I scratched my head many times. What do you get when you run "wine uninstaller"? I have two Linux Mint PCs with running VarAC. Both only have "Wine Mono Runtime 7.4.0" and "Wine Mono Windows Support 7.4.0". Nothing others. If you have anything else, uninstalling them might help. If nothing helps, it may be a good idea to remove your Wine and wine bottle and reinstall it. Don't use any install scripts. Just install the latest version of Wine-hq, install the latest version of the VARA modem from its installer, copy the latest version of the VarAC folder under "C:\", and go to my previous post. My two Mint PCs work with this. Good luck. Gene