[drats_users] Chat 'Forms'...

[Debbie Fligor]

Hi Charles,
I think that the broadcast message is what you're probably looking for then.  also, if you have a picture, Dan built in resizing jpegs on the go, to be able to send out missing person info for SAR stuff, I don't know if that would be too slow, but you might be able to follow the quick text broadcast with the picture if you do get a picture.


On Sep 21, 2010, at 4:58, Charles Story wrote:

> Debbie,
>  
> Thanks for your response.  I'm still trying to learn all the functionality of D-rats. I will try the 'broadcast text file' the next time we have a training net.  We tried sending Missing Person reports using the Memo Form during training nets and found it to be too slow, especially during the occasional 'frantic situations' like a missing child at an air show. I was thinking it would be helpful to have a message template for immediate broadcast into the chat screen.  I suppose it could become chaotic, if missused. But it would be great to just call up a missing person template; enter all the ID fields and broadcast it.  It would certainly work well in a simplex net. (Especially when the F-22 Raptor makes voice comms impossible).
>  
> Any information is greatly appreciated...
>  
> CFS
> 
> --- On Mon, 9/20/10, Debbie Fligor <n9dn at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> From: Debbie Fligor <n9dn at arrl.net>
> Subject: Re: [drats_users] Chat 'Forms'...
> To: "Discussion of D-RATS" <drats_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
> Date: Monday, September 20, 2010, 12:46 PM
> 
> 
> On Sep 18, 2010, at 13:14, Charles Story wrote:
> 
> > INFO: 
> >  
> > D-Rats is the center-piece of our communications during the California Capitol Airshow again this year.  Something we're doing now is:  sending a Missing Person report by cut-and-paste directly into the chat screen to save time.  A 'form' that would show as a block of text in the chat screen would be very useful on a simplex net.
> 
> Is there a reason that the "broadcast text file" option (in the File menu) doesn't work for this?  You feed it a text file, and it goes to everyone's chat window, at least the time I tried it.
> 
> 
> -----
> -debbie
> Debbie Fligor, n9dn
> A.R.E.S of Champaign County AEC
> OES/IL ARRL     
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