[Dxspider-support] VarAC Beacon spots

[Dirk Koopman]

VARA? Ah, not the "Vereeniging van Arbeiders Radio Amateurs" then, that 
became a progressive Dutch "omroep" in the Dutch TV/Radio system. They 
produced some pretty good TV programs too.

But I see it is a development by the ROSMODEM chap. When that first 
appeared it caused quite a few problems on the network as it was using a 
lot of cluster node bandwidth. But it all settled down reasonably well. 
That system used the chat facility in DXSpider, and I would expect the 
new system to do the same for its beaconing, rather than using spots. DX 
Spots are NOT the place for mode specific *automatic* beaconing, signal 
reports that are specific to the operation of VARA.

As the author is, I believe, Spanish I wonder whether one of our Spanish 
users could have a word with him(?) and remind him that 'chat' is the 
way to go.

Thanks

73 Dirk G1TLH

On 06/12/2022 20:18, Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty via Dxspider-support wrote:
>
> VarAC is a new chat program what has also a beacon mode, it uses VARA 
> as a transport mode.
>
> Bob VE3TOK
>
> On 2022-12-06 05:59, Mike G3YPP via Dxspider-support wrote:
>>
>> Today I have started to see a lot of spots going through my node with 
>> the comment “(VarAC) BEACON”
>>
>> I’ve not come across VarAC before but looking at it, it has the 
>> potential to cause an awful lot of spots.   I have added VarAC to my 
>> badword list which seems to be working on my node.
>>
>> Mike G3YPP
>>
>> Sysop for MX0NCA-2
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