[drats_users] Once Again

[Bill Cherepy]

Well, it just doesn't work. The radios are about 100 feet apart and I'm only
seven miles straight line from the repeater sitting atop a water tank on top
of a hill. Last Monday night I was not able to chat with a station on this
same repeater. I see the repeater auto ID on the screen as garbage ( I guess
that's to be expected), but I don't even see garbage when either radio keys
(and they do key).  Either my setup is wrong on both PC setups (and I set up
per the Docs on the D-Rats Website) or there's something wrong at the
repeater. Unfortunately, I can't link the B & C modules to REF015C at the
same time. I'll have to give it a try again if I can get the other station
to work with me. 

Thanks,

Bill WB4WTN

> 
> Is the 91 on an external antenna?  If so, the 880 will probably desense
> the 91 enough to make it not work.  If the 91 is using a rubber duck,
> I'm sure you won't make it into the repeater well enough.  Remember that
> voice quality has no bearing on data quality.
> 
> Turn on "raw text" mode for your configured radio on both machines.  If
> you see yellow garbage in the chat window of the receiving side, then
> you're "not making it".  Either the transmitter is desensing the
> receiver, or one doesn't have a solid signal into or out of the repeater.
>