[drats_users] d-rats thru dstar repeater

[Rolan O. Clark]

Stanley,

Great info , thanks.  That should be plenty of data for  ecomm type reports.

Take care,

73 de rolan w3fdk

-----Original Message----- 
From: Stanley Hess
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:45 AM
To: Discussion of D-RATS
Subject: Re: [drats_users] d-rats thru dstar repeater

Greetings,

Just off the top of my head the max file size sent through a repeater
is around 22k.  because of the 3 minute repeater timeout.  This 3
minutes is hardwired/coded into the ICOM D-Star repeater

Stanley Hess   N3KDA
K3PDR Gateway Admin


On 3/27/12, Rolan O. Clark <rolan.clark at comcast.net> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Thanks much for  the input and the reply. I’ll so some more testing, that
> was a quick one time test and yes, good idea on the voice announcements so
> others will know what is happening.  What I don’t know is if digi stuff I 
> am
> sending is longer than my voice message how does someone listening know
> there is still data being sent if they don’t look at the s-meter or wait
> until a scroll announces the digi data is finished and then the repeater
> stops transmitting ??
>
> We’ll find out but any input is always welcome,
>
> Take care,
>
> 73 de rolan w3fdk
>
>
>
> From: Mike Heitmann
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:01 AM
> To: Discussion of D-RATS
> Subject: Re: [drats_users] d-rats thru dstar repeater
>
>>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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