[drats_users] Possible Bug

[Mike Heitmann]

Hi Allen, 

First, your running an older version of d-rats. I recommend updating to the latest:
http://dev.d-rats.com/drats_daily/daily-02232012/d-rats-daily-02232012-installer.exe

Next, how are you connecting d-rats to DVTool? Are you selecting "dongle" as the port type in d-rats? It sounds like you have a port conflict and using d-rats is knocking the DVDongle off line. 

Lastly, I don't think d-rats has ever worked correctly through a DV Dongle. The data coming through the last time I tried it the data got mangled going through the dongle. That said, it was a long time ago and may have been with an older version of DVTool.

Mike, N0SO

On Jun 27, 2012, at 8:56 AM, "kc4mts" <kc4mts at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Hi Dan and all!
>  I had an issue between DRats and the DV Dongle during Tropical Storm Debby that I am need to report, but will not go as far as to report it as a bug yet.
>  I was running DRats o.3.3b6, DVtool 2.0b5, and the client version of WebEOC on my Dell Notebook PC and I would get disconnects on the DV tool, and Communications drop out on DRats. I have not nailed down exactly what circumstances caused the drops in communication, but initial ideas are that the drop out is occuring when I try to send information in DRats or when I key the DV Dongle to send voice or data, it is causing the one program to stop communication in the other. I am using the default ports in both programs for internet comms and this is the first time I have noticed the drop out problem ( It has not appeared before to my knowledge). I have used Both DRats and the DV tool on this same PC in the past with out apparent issue. One possibility is that WebEOC may be causing interoperability problems as this is the first time I have used the 3 programs together and I do not know what port the WebEOC client uses for comms.
>  WHen I send something in DRats the port to the Dongle will shut down and stop communication (the yellow and Blue LEDs go out and the link to the reflector is broken. The green power LED goes to a steady green instead of rapid flashing). This drop out is also intermittent (does not happen every time) .
>  
> PC info:
> Dell latitude D610
> 1.86 Ghz pentium M proc.
> running at 781 Mhz
> .99 GB ram
> Running MS Windows XP Home SP3
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