I think that since VarAC in EMCOMM has been announced and because we usually see on VarAC more operators who BEACON than operators calling CQ, BEACONS play an important part in VarAC so they should be treated equally or better than CQ Calls. So the waiting time of 20 seconds after the BUSY indicator goes off should be reduced to 5 seconds because now with so many ops still insisting having their QSOS in the calling frequency, BEACONS never get the chance to ever been transmitted in time and in many cases they have to wait too long. Also I think that we should be able to BEACON more often than every 15 minutes, i.e. every 5 minutes in special occasions such as EMCOMM situations!
73 de M0SUY
I agree that we can reduce. but I'll reduce to 10 sec for now. 73s