[drats_users] d-rats thru dstar repeater

[Mike Heitmann]

>We now have a dstar repeater and while talking to another station, no reflectors 
>connected, I can send a file and its received by the other station while I am 
>talking  but , >while  talking  if I send a message from the text window the 
>message  doesn’t send. 
>
> 
>No problem, just  curious if that is normal. 

Hi Roland,

You should be able to send chat text while talking. I always announce myself 
when running D-RATS through our local repeater just to prevent annoying the 
voice users with the constant  "kerchunking" (for lack of a better term) of the 
repeater when D-RATS sends data. I also change the radio message to read 
something like "Mike on D-RATS" to give a better idea of what is going on to 
anyone monitoring.

That said, I haven't tried it in a while, or with the latest version of D-RATS.

I would not expect D-RATS to be able to transfer a file or a message of any size 
over an RF channel while talking on the same radio, or while another QSO is in 
progress on the same frequency. 


73, 
Mike, N0SO
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