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BEACON ALERTS WHILE CONNECTED TO ANOTHER USER

While I am still trying to learn how VarAC works and I still have a long way to go but one thing came up in some of our practices trying to use this for future Emcomm work. If I for example are connected to another station passing traffic or the like, if another station in our Emcomm team sends out an ALERT Beacon, we don't hear it and are unaware of the alert. Is this a setting I'm not seeing or are you not able to basically monitor the channel (frequency) while you are connected to another station?

Sorry if this sounds stupid but there it is.

Robert E.

AG5B

Brandon, MS

2 comments

Comments (2)

NC3Z Gary

Dec 07, 2023

If you are in a connect and you are transmitting of course you will not hear it, likewise if the other sttaion you are connected to is stronger then you wont hear it. But the more important part is VARA HF is aware of this traffic and will wait for the frew to clear before it will transmit.

Robert Earl

Dec 08, 2023

Replying to

Everything you say is correct and to that I agree. My question revolves around that once we connect to other, we no longer are able to hear a beacon should it come out in a non-connected status. That is, the two of us are idle at the moment an ENCOMM beacon is sent but til to the face we are in a connected state, we won't hear it. We have been playing with VarAC for EMCOMM here and two of us were connected togther, both of us were idle at the moment and a third person sent an EMCOMM ALERT and I heard it over the radio with the volume turned up, VarAC did not register it as an ENCOMM ALERT and in fact we saw nothing on the beacon field. I'm just asking have we got a setting wrong or such.

Thanks for the response.

Robert E.

AG5B