[drats_users] What do I Tell my Friends??
David Holman
Wed Feb 6 20:14:24 PST 2013
John,
I am guessing that you have a computer up there with the repeater,
running D-RATS. At the moment, we don't have that, but, anyone can come
get files from my D-RATS shared drive.
What I would like to be able to do for things like bike races or other
public service events would be to access a file, i.e., a roster for
tracking drop outs, from the net control station or be able to inform
them that aid station # whatever needs something. Then they would get
instant updates and we wouldn't have to continually tie up the voice
channel to do those updates. We could also do check-ins and status and
such that way too.
I haven't tried that, but I have exchanged files.
Thanks
David, AC7DS
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When people fear the government, there is tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
On 02/06/2013 08:26 PM, rolan.clark at comcast.net wrote:
> John,
>
> A friend of mine who had a tnc in kiss mode and I had a tnc in kiss
> mode and using drats we could only tranfer a file about 1k in size but
> never did find out why, maybe a tnc buffer size?
>
> I have a drats on our local mountain and it works great for sending
> drats email to someone on the air. Its not a repeater like packet but
> it does the job plus one can upload a file that could serve as a
> message. We use .txt files and give it a name so someone could
> upload a file called w3fdk.txt if someone wants to send me a
> file then I can connect to w3fdk-9, my call for the mountain top
> drats, and down load any file. No privacy there as anyone can download
> a file but the principle works. Files can also be deleted from any
> station that has their call in the proper place in drats.
>
> This doesn't answer your question but maybe it gives you an idea of
> how to further use drats. I keep it going at the mountain top just
> for training for those that want to experiment with drats and in an
> ecom situation it sure can be used. I can connect it to the internet
> if I wish from my home computer via the internet and have that
> function but I leave it as a stand alone unit.
>
> Just some ideas you may want to play with.
>
> 73 de rolan w3fdk
>
> *From:* John Davis <mailto:JDavis at gtworks.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 06, 2013 10:07 PM
> *To:* Discussion of D-RATS <mailto:drats_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [drats_users] What do I Tell my Friends??
>
>
> It takes a TNC or sound card interface to the 6-pin mini-DIN on the
> 880 operating in FM mode to use that functionality. It does take a
> KISS TNC like a KPC-3+. Also keep in mind that to bridge D-RATS and
> packet you would configure a PC with a Ratflector with a connection to
> a D-STAR radio and a separate FM radio with a KISS TNC.
>
>
>
> John WB4QDX
>
>
>
> *From:*drats_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com
> [mailto:drats_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com] *On Behalf Of
> *David Holman
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 06, 2013 10:02 PM
> *To:* Discussion of D-RATS
> *Subject:* Re: [drats_users] What do I Tell my Friends??
>
>
>
> Kent,
>
> I don't have a packet modem... My radio is an ID-880H... How do you
> use D-RATS as an X.25 modem program?? I do have a Tiny Trak 4 that I
> could plug into the radio, but I would still need some kind of
> soundcard software to generate the Packet Tones.
>
> I have APRSIS on this computer....
>
> Thanks
>
> David, AC7DS
>
>
> Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
> Ben Franklin
>
> When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When people fear the government, there is tyranny.
> Thomas Jefferson
>
> On 02/06/2013 07:54 PM, Kent Hufford wrote:
>
> You use DRATS as a regular x.25 packet modem program.
>
>
>
> Can use the modem built into the Kenwood d710.
>
>
>
> When you use DRATS with DSTAR you get mapping display. But I am
> not sure if you try it in FM packet mode do you get APRS support
> like WinAPRS or UIView.
>
>
>
> Kent
>
>
>
> *From:*drats_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com
> <mailto:drats_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com>
> [mailto:drats_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com] *On Behalf Of
> *David Holman
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 06, 2013 9:47 PM
> *To:* Discussion of D-RATS
> *Subject:* Re: [drats_users] What do I Tell my Friends??
>
>
>
> Kent,
>
> How do you do that?? Can you also use it for APRS?
>
> Thanks
>
> David, AC7DS
>
>
> Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
>
> Ben Franklin
>
>
>
> When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When people fear the government, there is tyranny.
>
> Thomas Jefferson
>
> On 02/06/2013 02:26 PM, Kent Hufford wrote:
>
> You can run DRATS on regular FM packet as the packet software.
>
>
>
> Kent
>
> KQ4KK
>
>
>
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 06, 2013 4:23 PM
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> *Subject:* [drats_users] What do I Tell my Friends??
>
>
>
> I am trying to get several other hams who are also in our
> local RACES group to give D-Rats a try. So far they continue
> working on getting packet up and working locally. But, are
> showing no interest in using D-Rats. What else can I tell the
> as to why they should try D-Rats?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Sloan N0EOP
> EXAMS Chair Dayton Hamvention ® 2013
> c 765-969-2212
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