[drats_users] report from Colorado D-STAR Tuesday night Net of D-RATS Beta

[Nate Duehr]

I looked more carefully last night and the status line is there.  It's  
just not immediately obvious, but it works fine once I saw it.

--
Nate Duehr
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On Apr 15, 2009, at 7:40, Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com> wrote:

>> Nah, pop-ups are annoying.  Just need to re-train the eyeballs to
>> look in the right place.  Maybe a "progress bar".  If you had
>> multiple transfers going, not sure how that'd look, though.
>
> That's my feeling, but I can see how someone might appreciate one.
>
> It can be optional (and doesn't have to default to "on").  Does anyone
> else think that would help?
>
>> Hmm, yeah now that I think about it.... but I wouldn't want to to
>> default EVERYTHING... just the window you're in... maybe a "DEFAULT
>> ALL" would be good with one of those dumb "Are you SURE (Y/N)?" type
>> of pop-ups... but something like that could make things worse if
>> someone were to get wild with it.  :-)
>
> Right, I meant individual config groups.
>
>> I just tried some "through the repeater" transfers from my HT and a
>> laptop back to the ID-800H "in the shack" and it didn't go very
>> well...  obviously my signal into the repeater sucks on the HT.
>
> I do a fair amount of testing with the repeater here and it works okay
> (but it's much slower due to the delays).  There was a bug a bit ago
> where D-RATS tried to recover from a missed block too quickly and kept
> clashing with the repeater's delayed transmission.  That seems to be
> fixed now.
>
>> I attempted various things, including sending chat messages and
>> "connecting" to both my home station and another person's.  His
>> station completely stopped responding after it listed his
>> files... like it got caught in some never-never land after my signal
>> was bad.  And the home station was so close (I was out on the front
>> sidewalk), that it was desensing the HT something fierce.
>
> Okay, a debug log from the remote station that stopped responding
> might be helpful if it really did start ignoring you.
>
> De-sense seems to be a pretty large problem with a D-STAR signal.
> Since the data side gets no error correction, it is extremely
> sensitive to such things.  I've found that an almost unnoticeable
> amount of de-sense on the DV voice or FM side will result in an almost
> useless data stream.
>
> Thanks!
>
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