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Varac not transmitting with SE Call

Goodmorning all.

I'm lost here with VarAC. When I use the call PG6PEACE, VarAC won't switch my IC-7300 to transmit. No errors given. Switching bands is no problem. When I set the callsign to my normal call everything is working again.

Test PTT on and test PTT off in the settings menu are working.

Any ideas?

73, Storm (PG6PEACE)

4 comments

Comments (4)

irad d

Aug 27, 2022

VARA modem does not support 8 characters callsigns. Its not a limit with VarAC but with the VARA MODEM.

pg6peace

Aug 27, 2022

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Thanks for the quick answer Irad. I don't understand why that limit is in VARA, but I have to deal with it hi. See lots of stations around with longer callsigns on the bands those days.

B.t.w., thanks for a nice piece of software. At this moment just one point: If the serial port for VarAC is in use by an other program VarAC won't give a warning. Maybe an idea for a future version?

73, Storm

irad d

Aug 27, 2022

Replying to

Thanks. I'll incorporate a warning.

As for 8 characters - it has to do with the limit of the lowest speed packet size which is around those boundaries.

73s

irad d

Aug 27, 2022

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Actually I had a warning but I removed it as occasionally it sent errors to the log as com parts can have hiccups.. and people were too anxious about those errors . so I created the com port tester where it does show the error. 73s

In debug mode you does get those also in the VarAC log.