[drats_users] Correctly configuring D-Rats to talk to myself

[Gene Coldwell]

I've done what you're trying, and it usually worked for me. But on occasion, when I've used a laptop with a USB serial device to connect to the radio, RF from the radio got into the USB serial and confused it. Placing the USB device or more 3 ft from the radio solved that. The rf problem seemed to come from the radio itself, not just the antenna.

On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:23:14 -0500
"Michael A. Waldron" <lists at mikew.org> wrote:

> I'm trying to configure D-Rats to talk to myself. I have 2 instances of D-Rats on 2 different computers with 2 different radios and I'm attempting to establish a connection between them. 
> 
> Before you ask, no I'm not crazy (can't be proven anyway), I'm trying to get a setup to do some demonstrations. 
> 
> I have D-Rats set up to match the callsign in each radio (One is "AE0MW" one is "AE0MW  P") and I'm on a simplex frequency. I have both radios set to low power into dummy loads, spaced out enough so I can be sure this is not a desensitization issue. 
> 
> When I send some text with D-Rats it keys the radio, the receiving radio records the callsign and msg correctly but the receiving D-Rats sees nothing. I can reverse the Tx and Rx stations and get the same results. 
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions?
> 
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