[Dxspider-support] VarAC Beacon spots

[Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty]

Yes, ha ha!  I guess VarAC means the VARA club?  I remember that, but VarAC itself  luckily registers with pskreporter  and is made by a ham in Israel.

  73,

Bob VE3TOK

On 2022-12-06 15:37, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support wrote:
> 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:
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>>> Today I have started to see a lot of spots going through my node with the comment “(VarAC) BEACON”
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>>> 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.
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