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

Michael A. Waldron
Tue Aug 4 13:19:33 PDT 2009


For testing I'm using a 92 and a 91. I have disabled power saving on both handhelds. 

I believe the baud rate is set to 9600, is that correct?

I will turn on the Raw option and test again this evening.

-Mike

Dan Smith wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Are they handhelds and do they have power save enabled?
> 
> Turn on "raw text" on each D-RATS and see if you're getting garbled
> stuff.  It could be that you're receiving, but the data is being
> corrupted and you just don't see that.
> 
> Also make sure your baud rate is correct at each side.  If you see 100%
> garbled yellow text with the above enabled, that's a good thing to try.
> 


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