[drats_users] Dprs question

[Nate Duehr]

On Tue, 19 May 2009 11:46:52 -0500, "Debbie Fligor" <n9dn at arrl.net>
said:
> Hi Nate,
> He has a 91ad and a Garmin gps45 -- it's in the top of the mail you  
> quoted.
> 
> maybe you need another cup of coffee :-)

Bah... yeah.  Late night last night.

So yeah... build up a so-called "null modem" cable since you're
connecting two serial DCE devices to each other, (technically wouldn't
that be called a "null terminal" cable?  Heh...) and plug the GPS 45
into the rig, set GPS mode, speed, GPS strings (if needed... I don't
remember on the 91AD... perhaps not), and every time you key up your GPS
strings will be sent simultaneously with your voice transmissions.

If you're using a Gateway-equipped repeater, and using the Gateway
callsign in RPT2 field on your rig... Pete's javaAPRSd that's running on
all U.S. Gateways will pick up your data and forward it into the APRS
servers.

When you get it right, your local Gateway admin will be able to see it
in the logs and/or you'll just "magically" appear on places like
aprs.fi, and all the others that pull from the world-wide APRS server
network.

To get any more detail out of me today, I'd DEFINITELY need more
coffee... but you should definitely be able to make it work.  In fact,
if you had the 92 it'd be harder since you'd need that FUNKY
connector... at least on the 91 you have a fighting chance of making
your own cable.  LOL!

To get back on topic... Dan... does D-RATS also "pass through" the
correct looking DPRS style data when a GPS is connected to D-RATS and
then the rig is connected also to D-RATS?  That would be nifty... but
I'm betting it already does that.  (I haven't messed around with
connecting my GPS to D-RATS yet, but I could see doing it in a permanent
mobile laptop install...)  I'm zonked today.  Should have gotten more
sleep.  Spent the night trying to figure out what was wrong with some
1RU rackmount hardware... turns out the owner had run into this
before... some incompatibility between the Celeron processor he was
using and the motherboard, and his "identical twin" machine already got
a brain transplant to a Dual Core that works fine... he thought it was
only that one machine, not a compatibility issue... new processor
ordered this morning, after I spent half the night beating on it, trying
to make it behave while running CentOS. 

I hate PC hardware... can I have my Sun servers back now please?  They
don't lock up solid with no indication or logging of any kind as to why
the hardware went Tango Uniform.  :-)

Nate WY0X
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