[drats_users] Problem sending GPS coordinates

[Dan Smith]

> Ok, I did some experiments with another D-rats station. They're
> seeing my GPS Beacons, but I'm not.  All of my other QST's are echoed
> back to the screen so that I can see them being sent.  For some
> reason the GPS beacons are not being echoed. Can this be fixed?

Yes :)

> I also noticed that I loose connectivity to the GPS if I disable the
> QST (or change it in some way). When I enable the QST again, the
> message down in the corner says "Unable to open GPS port". The only
> way I can restore the connection is to exit from D-rats and start it
> up again, then everything works fine.

Ah, yes.  I'm probably not closing the COM port correctly.  Windows is
very sensitive to this, but Linux is not, so I don't always notice it.

Thanks!

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