WHY AM I GETTING THIS WHEN I HAVE A STATION TRYING TO CONNECT WITH ME? "Still doesn't recognize who you are." I get this when my friend trys connecting to me and he says he gets the same thing on his side when I attempt a connect? This has starting happening in the last two updates. HELP..
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NOT RECOGNIZING CONNECTING STATION
NOT RECOGNIZING CONNECTING STATION
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For anyone who has been following this thread I found an answer in the BUG REPORTING section. It's not a BUG as originally thought, it is a the level of process an incoming connection.😣
Stage 1 of the process... I receive an "Incoming Connection Request" from another station. Like making a collect call to someone. The incoming station has not sent it's callsign as yet just the request to connect to you, thus "Still don't know who this is" appears. ☎️ 🤔
Stage 2 of the process... My station sends an ACK or "I will accept the charges" to the station wanting to connect to me. 📞
Stage 3 of the process... The Originating station sends it's callsign to my station in response to my ACK and then I can see who is connecting/connected to my station. 😃
In my view that statement is an annoyance and total unnecessary but now that I know what it is I'm no longer thinking that there is something wrong with the VarAC logging related to my friend with whom I've been using VarAC from it's first availability. 😏
Gary, that would defeat the purpose wouldn't it?
I think the screen shot pretty much explains the issue if you read through it step-by-step. Not a hard concept, just an annoying alert the never use to happen so we are wondering why. Hopefully code writers will read this and be able to assist.
THX, Bruce
Gary, Yes the stations are able to connect, pass traffic, vmail, etc. We are early adoptors of VarAC from the very first version. Typically I would get a "Incoming Connection Request" notice and then "Connected to WA6ZKM". Then 2 or 3 version updates ago, and after years of "NORMAL", both our stations started getting this addition to the incoming connect request "Still don't know who that is". I think it started about the time we could add our SPECIAL PREFIX W7 in the My Information box. Since both of us have region 6 licenses but live in Washington (Region 7) we thought we would take advantage of that. Since then it's really frustrating since I have the voice turned on and it loudly announces VarAC doesn't know who my friend is.
Hello, I'm the other station Brad is connecting to, Bruce - KD6HWZ. Per your request here is a screen shot where he is starting a connection to my station and 2 instances of our signal levels between our stations.
Kind Regards...
Thank you, but his signal is a good S10 to 15, VarAC says +10 both send and receive. I must fall into that 1%.
99% of the time is because there is just not enough signal strength to make a connection.