Automatic version for Vmail forwarding Hello everyone, I, like perhaps many others, have a very full Vmail inbox. Which is a good thing, as it is clear that VarAC has become quite popular and well used. I also retrieve a lot of Vmails because I can often only reply to some OMs in the USA / South America via relay. This works very well. But there could be improvements here. If you are waiting for a Vmail, an automatic attempt could be made to deliver the mail to the recipient instead of having to collect it manually from all over the world :-) For me personally, this is already turning into “work”,hi. A concept could look like this: You write a new Vmail, either deliver it directly manually or wait for the beacon from the other station. When it has been heard with sufficient signal (i.e. no delivery at -15db or so), a connection will be established. Both stations must have Auto QSY set to on. If the delivery of the Vmail is not successful, try again in 2 or 3 hours, provided the beacon has been heard. The interval should definitely not be too short (1 hour or less). If the remote station cannot be reached directly, i.e. “never”, you could enter the relay directly in an option field for the recipient. Example: I often have contact with KL7QR in Arizona, sometimes it works directly but often not. We now know that we can use KA3NAM and VO1CBL as very reliable relays. At this point you could enter the relay station as an option in the Vmail. Proceed as above. If KA3NAM is heard, then deliver the Vmail via KA3NAM. KA3NAM logically checks again whether it hears the beacon from KL7QR and then the procedure as above. I think this would be a great idea and would greatly reduce the manual effort, especially with Vmail. It would also certainly be an important and useful thing for EMCOM! In this situation, you´ll wont´t check every some minutes if a Vmail is waiting. Just deliver them as described above. 73 Andre / DL4QB

Just tried the 10.1 version with the new feature hamplay. Wow, that´s great. Tried my first match and lost,hi,hi! I could imagine, to play Chess over hf or VHF/UHF. Princip should be the same. To all others, try that HAMPLAY Button, that makes really fun!! 73 Andre / DL4QB

Hi! I don´t know it that is really a bug but i could not get it done correctly. So, i use an Icom 9700 for the QO100 SAT operation with VaraC and the latest Rig Control file. In general it is running. BUT for the PSK Reporter and logfile, the settings are wrong. Example: My Icom 9700 is running on 23cm to the upconverter. So i have configured it with the Frequency file and the TRX also the program is following the frequency now and working fine. But log, PSKreporter and will see that as 160m does not matter if i add another .000 in the frequency file or not. Second: Please also think about an "virtual offset" what you can set like WSJTX. The real frequency where i´m sending is 2.400.105 MHz. With this settings, my Icom will work without any problems on 23cm to the upconverter (TX 2400 MHz from upconverter) and the log is 100% correct also the Pskinforeporter for TX on 2400 MHz. Further Information regarding the virtual offset: Many Thanks! 73 Andre / DL4QB