VarAC. HF/FM Digital Chat Reinvented.
VarAC is a FREE, modern HF P2P real-time chatting application for the amateur radio operator that leverages the glorious VARA protocol.
Calling QRGs (USB dial)
20m – 14.105 MHz (Primary – day time)
40m – 7.105 MHz (Primary – night time)
80m – 3.595 MHz
30m – 10.133 MHz
17m – 18.106 MHz
15m – 21.105 MHz
12m – 24.927 MHz
10m – 28.105 MHz
6m – 50.330 MHz
VarAC main features
- Call CQ using the VARA protocol
- See if your partner is currently typing
- Having fun while chatting with sounds & emojis
- Supporting CAT command, RTS/DTS & OmniRig
- Supporting two VARA modems
- Type as many messages as you’d like
- For best QSO performance monitoring
- Set preconfigured welcome & away messages
- Create predefined messages (RIG, Info…)
- Select your desired QSO bandwidth
- Let other people know you are standing by
- No more typos. Spell check as you type
- Supporting binary files, text, Images and more
- Move QSO up or down with a single mouse click
- Supporting ADIF format
- Chose the colors/fonts you like. Use dark mode.
IMPORTANT NOTE: VarAC requires VARA-HF V4.6.4 or higher
Changelog:
New features
Last heard Beacons/CQ time shown as absolute or time diff from UTC
FLRig support (Now you can also operate your Rig remotely with VarAC)
Multilingual broadcasts
Incoming Broadcasts SNRs (requires VARA 4.7.2)
PSKReporter uploads of Broadcasts (requires VARA 4.7.2)
Verbose SNR – send SNR during a QSO every 1 minutes for propagation tests.
Block <INFO> requests – if you don’t want your data to be retrieved automatically
Limiting Ping time to 60 seconds on the CF
Enhancements/Changes
Right click a beacon –> connect
Last heard is now stored in the SQLite DB.
Ignoring received CQ calls without a Slot ID (unless “skip CQ slot selector” is enabled)
Clear indication on the VARA command box of CQFRAME that are Beacons (with SSID -9)
Narration queue – if there are many things to narrate, VarAC will narrate one by one and not together
5 additional frequency scheduler timers
Under SNR graph – copy SNR data to clipboard & adding QSO start time at the graph header
PSK Self reporting will only happen after 60 seconds from the last frequency dropdown change.
Right Click->Copy all, on all sections in the “callsign history” screen.
VarAC.ini file is now created upon first VarAC run. No INI file will be distributed from now on in install packages.
Detecting a VarAC.exe run directly from the ZIP package file and alerting the user.
Safety mechanism for stuck PTT: Auto turning PTT off every minute while in in active transmission
New <LOCR> tag – to pull your QSO partner grid locator
Bug fixes
Type in LHR tag in the gestures screen
Vmails times were not shown in UTC time.
VaraFM – connecting through digipeater removed spaces from the connect callsign textbox
VaraFM – Your own CQ echoed through a digipeater will not be decoded by you.
VaraFM – not decoding same broadcast over and over again is echoed through a digipeater
VaraFM – right click a callsign on last heard list & broadcast reply – did not populate well the digipeater
VaraFM – right click on beacon -> Ping – failed.
the “skip CQ slot selector” checkbox under settings was not loaded properly to screen showing always “checked”
Clean VARA buffer popup appear many times during a QSO when VarAC tries to clean the VARA buffer
Disabling narration under “Linux compatible mode” to avoid errors as narrations are not supported on Wine
Decoding now frequencies as bands 23cm and 13cm
When using multiple screens – sometimes VarAC does not reload on the last position it was at.
Removing maximize option from inbox screen
On VarAC cluster (Multi-instances) now also refreshing the relay notification counter.
Besturingssystemen: Alle Windows
Website: https://www.varac-hamradio.com/
Download: https://www.varac-hamradio.com/download
Licentietype: Freeware
Nederlandse handleiding van ON2AD: International manuals (non English) by VarAC community | VarAC (varac-hamradio.com)