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

James Ewen
Tue Aug 4 13:15:04 PDT 2009


Pretty hard to desense an FM radio on simplex.

James
VE6SRV

On 8/4/09, Robert Wilcox <bwilcoxowosso at gmail.com> wrote:
> If both radios are in the same room there could be a de-sensing problem.
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:23 AM, 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?
>>
>> --
>> Michael A. Waldron, AE0MW
>> http://www.mikew.org
>> PGP: http://www.mikew.org/mypgpkey.txt
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