[drats_users] Text message to radio display?

[Mark Phillips]

With a HotSpot we also have access to the entire stream too. Just the 
same way that a repeater does.

I think what you're saying is that D-RATS can only inject stuff into the 
data part of the payload?

Methinks that DVAR-HotSpot Mark might be getting an email :} If somehow 
between you there can be a mechanism whereby you can forward whole 
packets to DVAR .....

If you could do that them you could break free of the payload boundaries 
too thus upping the throughput etc.

Mark

On 01/24/2010 11:40 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
>> Can D-RATS send short messages to my radio's display?
>>
>> This feature is available with a "proper" repeater running the DPLUS
>> software (we have out local one blatting out the time/date every half
>> hour) so I would assume it's not too hard to do?
>
> Nope, that's not possible from the data interface of the radios.  The
> radio takes the data you send and wraps it up in the D-STAR stream.  It
> unwraps it on the other end, so you never get to see the next layer down.
>
> You could do it with a 91/92AD and rig control, presumably, but that
> would be rather different.  DPLUS can do it because it has access to the
> entire stream, not just the slow data bits.
>