Answers below in <b>bold</b>. Thanks.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Dan Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dsmith@danplanet.com">dsmith@danplanet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
(Sorry for the delay in responding to this)<br>
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> - I sent email to W9DBE * <a href="http://winlink.org" target="_blank">winlink.org</a> <<a href="http://winlink.org" target="_blank">http://winlink.org</a>> and then<br>
<div class="im">> connected to W9DBE-10 D-Rats station to check the email. W9DBE-10<br>
> collected the W9DBE WL email and put it in it's outbox. Then nothing<br>
> further...it stays in the W9DBE-10's outbox and does not get forwarded<br>
> to the W9DBE D-Rats station.<br>
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</div>The debug logs shows that it *is* trying to send the form from the<br>
outbox and that the W9DBE station is not responding and/or the blocks<br>
are not making it cleanly to the other side. Was this over RF?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><b>Yes, RF. And I was also able to chat between the two stations at that time. Should I try to close and restart each station to see if that frees the messages from the outbox and get them sent?</b></div>
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<div class="im"><br>
> - W9DBE-10 showed "W9DBE requested a mail check", and then "Checking<br>
> mail for W9DBE: Queued 2 messages". W9DBE then shows "Mail Check via<br>
> W9DBE-10: No Response", and then "Mail check via W9DBE-10: No messages".<br>
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</div>That would happen if you put in three requests, two of which were<br>
serviced and one of which was corrupted.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> - On a separate thought...as I test the WL2k email check between the<br>
> stations, have gotten confused a few times on which station is logged on<br>
> with what SSID (or none). Would it make sense to have the D-Rats logged<br>
> in callsign with SSID shown somewhere on the display (bottom status<br>
> bar?)?<br>
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</div>Since the SSID is a Winlink/Packet thing and not D-STAR related, I could<br>
go for displaying the callsign but I don't think the SSID belongs there.<br>
File a bug/feature report if you would so I'll remember to do it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><b>The main thing is to be able to see (maybe in the lower status bar) what your call-sign is that you started up D-Rats with (with or without any SSIDs that were appended to the callsign field in D-Rats). Seeing it, you could then visually see it for confirmation and perhaps better remember to change it when changing station operators during an emcomm event.</b></div>
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> And on the same topic, does it make sense to have the name of the<br>
> connected stations shown somewhere? If they were you could tell that<br>
> station W9DBE-1 was actually "EOC", KC9ORB was "Red Cross", and so on.<br>
> Might simplify communications a bit when in the stress of an emcomm<br>
> event. Just a couple of thoughts...<br>
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</div>Define "connected stations" in this context. Any station-to-station<br>
transfer that is in-progress shows up in the Event Log. Perhaps the<br>
event text for a session could be made to include the station, which<br>
might help that.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><b>- Yes, the connected stations show up but am wondering if there is value in a "descriptive" field also being shown in addition to the D-Rats call-sign of the station. This goes kind of together with the above item in clarifying and confirming who you are and who you are talking with. Perhaps only of value in an emcomm event...where there are several unknown stations communicating and having this descriptive text field would be of value. So rather than having to consult a list that would have to be created and distributed of what call-sign is what station (e.g. Kc9ORB = Red Cross, W9DBE = Police liaison, and so on) the descriptive field could clearly identify who is what...in addition to simply the stations call-sign.</b></div>
<div><b>- This could apply to not only the station names of locations or agencies, but also for any assigned "tactical" call-signs...anything to avoid having to use just a call sign and then figure out what their tactical call-sign and/or location is. For example, I need to get a message to the Red Cross D-Rats station...but how do I know which station is the Red Cross? Hope I am making sense.</b></div>
<div><b>- Maybe you could right click on the station name in the right bar and get their D-Rats "name" description, not just their call sign. If this idea is of any value to you and others then maybe it could be used. If not of interest in this use, then please don't worry about the idea. Hopefully one of the others can chime in and say that it has value or not. Thanks.</b></div>
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