[drats_users] More Help Please

[Bill Cherepy]

Dan,

You're right, I didn't take this into consideration. I was able to Chat
RF-wise with a couple of stations last night via WD4STR. One odd thing
though, When I was on the Dongle (I figured that out last night also) and I
could chat with another Dongle user, but not see anything on the RF side. I
figured that having two stations on at the same time may have confused
D-STAR.

Thanks for the reply.

Bill WB4WTN


> 
> This is a Windows (well, any Operating System) thing.  If you unplug the
> USB adapter while a program has the COM port open, it can't assign it
> the same COM port when you re-insert the USB adapter until the program
> that has it open lets go of it.  D-RATS can't tell that you've unplugged
> the USB device that is underneath the virtual COM port, so it can't do
> anything about it.
> 
> Also, unlike most other operating systems, Windows likes to renumber the
> virtual COM port constantly, depending on how, when and where you plug
> in the adapter.  Obviously if you tell D-RATS to use COM5 and then your
> USB adapter later hops to COM6, you'll have to tell D-RATS that it
changed.
> 
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