[drats_users] gps ???

[Mike Heitmann]

Sorry for the delay, I've been away from e-mail this morning.

I did all of my testing with D-RATS v0.3.3b2 running on Fedora 13 Linux. I can 
try Windows this evening. Two different radios were used: 

1. IC-2820 
2. IC-92AD with GPS mic. 

Both yielded  basically the same results, position reports were "hit and miss". 
The 2820 performed a little better, but it's antenna wasn't dancing around while 
I moved about like the IC-92AD was.

In the D-RATS debug log, I could see check sum errors being reported on the 
received data in the instances that showed up as chat data. 


I think I saved the log file, I can post it this evening if that's helpful.

Mike







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From: Francis Miele <fran at miele-family.com>
To: Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
Sent: Thu, August 12, 2010 8:44:45 AM
Subject: Re: [drats_users] gps ???

Thanks Mike!

Did you do your tests on your Linux machine or your Windows machine?

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On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Mike Heitmann <n0so at att.net> wrote:

OK, I did a little testing this evening. I am able to receive position
>reports from voice stations - as long as they are reporting position ;-)
>
>That said, I do see LOTS of errors, and those show up as chat data
>because I have the "sniff" and "raw text" options checked in the port
>preferences. If I look in my log file, there are many instances of:
>
>APRS CRC mismatch: 7968 != 0DF7 (N0SO>API92,DSTAR*:!
>^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>and they appear to correspond to the chat messages.
>
>The saving grace for voice stations is: unless your transmissions are
>very short, you get multiple chances to get a good position report while
>the operator is talking.
>
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