[drats_users] Problem sending GPS coordinates

[Terry Breitenfeldt]

Another thing I noticed.... For some reason the map displays a station called "Unknown".
This station has the same Lat/Lon as my home location called "Me".
 
Terry
 



> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:37:56 -0700> From: dsmith at danplanet.com> To: drats_users at lists.danplanet.com> Subject: Re: [drats_users] Problem sending GPS coordinates> > > 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!> > -- > Dan Smith> dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/> www.danplanet.com> KK7DS> > _______________________________________________> drats_users mailing list> drats_users at lists.danplanet.com> http://lists.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/drats_users
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