[drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.8b8 GPS (W4CPU)

Thu Dec 11 19:04:47 PST 2008

Dan
I ran 0.2.8b8 for the last two days still losing GPS signal and sometime
only get 3 sats locked but weather has been really bad around Atlanta so
I'll give it till Monday then if it is still losing the lock I will send you
some more debug logs. Thanks!

De w4cpu

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: D-RATS 0.2.8b8 GPS (Dan Smith)
   2. Case sensitivity & Incoming Email Problem 2.9.2 (Dave Cooley)
   3. Re: D-RATS 0.2.8b8 GPS (C B)
   4. Re: D-RATS 0.2.8b8 GPS (Dan Smith)
   5. Re: Case sensitivity & Incoming Email Problem 2.9.2 (Dan Smith)
   6. Re: D-RATS 0.2.8b8 GPS (C B)
   7. Re: D-RATS 0.2.8b8 GPS (Dan Smith)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:05:55 -0800
From: Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com>
Subject: Re: [drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.8b8 GPS
To: Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>
Message-ID: <49419CD3.2070203 at danplanet.com>
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> I just ran Drats with 91AD hooked up and gps off and I closed drats and
> got blue screen of death.......that is dumping memory..... Is there a
> way to down grade to older ver? 

Just go download 0.2.7 and install like normal.  Please verify that the
older version doesn't result in a BSOD and report back.  If it in fact
does not, then I will create a new build on my older machine to see if
it's related to which machine I build on.  I'm definitely not seeing
this on XP (or any other platform for that matter), and the only two
people reporting this are on Vista, so I'm pretty confident that we're
poking a Vista bug with this.

Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of Vista to reproduce this with, so
I'll have to depend on people who do to test various changes.

-- 
Dan Smith
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KK7DS

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:09:01 -0500
From: "Dave Cooley" <dave at proficia.com>
Subject: [drats_users] Case sensitivity & Incoming Email Problem 2.9.2
To: "'Discussion of D-RATS'" <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>
Cc: 'Dan Smith' <dsmith at danplanet.com>
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> Case Sensitivity - This little gremlin has shown up again. Case conversion
works in most all aspects of the application accept under the main settings
Call Sign Field. You can input lower case into this field and it shows as
lower case (no conversion is performed) . 

> Unable to enter new incoming email account. Fill in the fieldsd and all
that shows up are a couple of "0"s

Dave Cooley
N4DIB

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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:57:13 -0800 (PST)
From: C B <k4acb at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.8b8 GPS
To: Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>
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Hey?Dan me and Dave have been trying to figure out my situation and we found
out whats going on.....? Ok well in the static location that does need to be
set to where abouts you could be at.? What goes on is the static loc. is
throwing stuff off some how.??What I did was?disabled the?ext gps on drats
and closed program no blue screen.? Next I?opened again put in my loc in
static loc and then closed no blue screen.? Next I then hooked up gps and
stuff and just like magic it all works no more blue screen.? So it had
something to do with Static loc and?true loc from gps I would say something
to that area.

And Thanks Dave N4DIB for help too. 
?73,
Cameron
Amateur Radio Op. ( K4ACB )
Saint Petersburg, FL
K4ACB at yahoo.com / KI4VYQ at yahoo.com 

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From: Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com>
To: Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:05:55 PM
Subject: Re: [drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.8b8 GPS

> I just ran Drats with 91AD hooked up and gps off and I closed drats and
> got blue screen of death.......that is dumping memory..... Is there a
> way to down grade to older ver? 

Just go download 0.2.7 and install like normal.? Please verify that the
older version doesn't result in a BSOD and report back.? If it in fact
does not, then I will create a new build on my older machine to see if
it's related to which machine I build on.? I'm definitely not seeing
this on XP (or any other platform for that matter), and the only two
people reporting this are on Vista, so I'm pretty confident that we're
poking a Vista bug with this.

Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of Vista to reproduce this with, so
I'll have to depend on people who do to test various changes.

-- 
Dan Smith
dsmith#danplanet..com, s/#/@/
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:01:03 -0800
From: Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com>
Subject: Re: [drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.8b8 GPS
To: Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>
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> Hey Dan me and Dave have been trying to figure out my situation and we 
> found out whats going on.....  Ok well in the static location that does 
> need to be set to where abouts you could be at.  What goes on is the 
> static loc. is throwing stuff off some how.  What I did was disabled 
> the ext gps on drats and closed program no blue screen.  Next I opened 
> again put in my loc in static loc and then closed no blue screen.  Next 
> I then hooked up gps and stuff and just like magic it all works no more 
> blue screen.  So it had something to do with Static loc and true loc 
> from gps I would say something to that area.

Well, that's not a real solution.  There definitely *is* a problem 
somewhere, but I'm not sure where to go from here.  My guess would be 
that you will see it crop up again at some point.  If and when you do, 
the more information you can provide (like what you have above), the better.

Anyway, glad it's working, and let me know if it shows up again.

Thanks!

-- 
Dan Smith
dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS

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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:02:07 -0800
From: Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com>
Subject: Re: [drats_users] Case sensitivity & Incoming Email Problem
	2.9.2
To: Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>
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> Case Sensitivity - This little gremlin has shown up again. Case 
> conversion works in most all aspects of the application accept under 
> the main settings Call Sign Field. You can input lower case into this
>  field and it shows as lower case (no conversion is performed) .

Oops.  Left that out of the new config box.

> Unable to enter new incoming email account. Fill in the fieldsd and 
> all that shows up are a couple of "0"s

Yep, good one.  Fixed.  I'll post another beta.

Thanks!

-- 
Dan Smith
dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS

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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:08:34 -0800 (PST)
From: C B <k4acb at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.8b8 GPS
To: Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>
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Hey Dan got a?question now for you.? Is there a command or anything I can
put in my ping reply message to give out a up to sec gps string on where I
can be at?? And another thing I just noticed is that the gps locks and
unlocks but when it locks up it has 7 sats most the time.
?73,
Cameron
Amateur Radio Op. ( K4ACB )
Saint Petersburg, FL
K4ACB at yahoo.com / KI4VYQ at yahoo.com 

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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:12:17 -0800
From: Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com>
Subject: Re: [drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.8b8 GPS
To: Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>
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> Hey Dan got a question now for you.  Is there a command or anything I
> can put in my ping reply message to give out a up to sec gps string on
> where I can be at? 

Not currently, but it's one of the things I want to add as part of a
larger set of features that let you pull forms (, etc) from another
station.  The way ping works, its really intended to solicit a response
from a remote station that can be directed at the caller.  Since the GPS
stuff is defined outside the scope of the rest of the D-RATS protocol,
it doesn't make much sense to use it there.

However, there will be a way to say "tell me where you are right now".

> And another thing I just noticed is that the gps
> locks and unlocks but when it locks up it has 7 sats most the time.

Okay, well you never sent me a debug log after I made a couple tweaks
for you in the late 0.2.8 betas.  Send me another where it is going from
locked to unlocked and I'll see what else is throwing it off. :)

-- 
Dan Smith
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KK7DS

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