[drats_users] D-Rats Using The DV-Dongle

[Ron Wenig]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for replying back to me.  I thought that it may have been an 
isolated case just to my area because I haven't heard anybody else 
reporting this.

We have a little group here using D-Rats at night to chat with each 
other.  D-Rats allow you to do things around the house and every once in 
a while glance at the computer screen to see what the flow of 
conversation is and send a few thoughts to the group and then do 
something else.  If you don't have another radio to use the Dongle is 
nice to have so you don't have to drag the radio out of the car.  We are 
having a lot of fun with D-Rats but it's kind of frustrating when a 
message is being sent and you can't copy the text.  Some people think 
you are ignoring them because you don't reply back to what they say :-)

That's a good point about complex things working and simple things like 
chat don't.  As a test we had a person send email to my station that was 
on RF and he was using a Dongle.  The message was sent ok and my station 
transferred the email back out to the internet.  That's a great feature 
and we are thinking of leaving one machine set up like that as a mail 
server.  Well, after he sent that email he sent a chat about it which 
was broken and no one was able to hear about his success. 

73, Ron ny3j

Dan Smith wrote:
> Hi Ron,
>
>   
>> I was on the REF0015C reflector today testing the DV-Dongle. Two other
>> stations were on and I received a couple of messages from them ok. Then
>> I received, what I call "broken packets". The messages that I received
>> were in yellow with a CQCQCQ address, a [SOB] in the beginning of the
>> packet and a [EOB] at the end. The text was unreadable. I have also seen 
>> this
>> when sending a message in D-Rats from a  DV-Dongle to a radio.
>>
>> Has anyone else noticed this and is there a fix for it.
>>     
>
> To be perfectly honest, I've never actually used D-RATS through the
> dongle :)
>
> I'm a little confused because some people seem to report 100% success
> with complex things like file transfers and others seem to report broken
> packets even with things like chat.
>
> My guess is that there is some tuning to be done on the socket that
> DVTool listens on, but I haven't had a chance to test it and report the
> findings to Robin.  I'll do that when I get a chance.
>
>