<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Buddy and Dan,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your responses. The software does run on my Macbook ... and connects to a ratflector via the Internet. </div><div><br></div><div>However, I'm missing some connection on how to get it to talk to my transceiver. I assume I need some kind of a TNC? If so, what TNC are you using with your Mac? Do I need a USB to serial cable for that TNC? I've got a SignaLink USB that I'm successfully using with cocoaModem and MacLoggerDX. Is that sufficient, and if so, what's the configuration between D-Rats and the SignaLink?</div><div><br></div><div>I apologize if I'm sounding a bit anal ... some additional details on your setup would be very helpful to me.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Roland<br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--</div><div>Roland Smith (K7OJL)</div><div>Email:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:rolandksmith@gmail.com">rolandksmith@gmail.com</a></div><div><div>Weblog: <a href="http://www.rnsmith.com/">http://www.rnsmith.com/</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="http://www.getmyhamradiolicense.com/">http://www.getmyhamradiolicense.com/</a><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Cell:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>208-406-8449</div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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<br><div><div>On Jul 22, 2010, at 8:25 AM, beamar wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div name="Mail Message Editor"><div><span class="Apple-style-span">For everyone's information, after a few initial problems, which were solved by posting questions to this list, I am very pleased with the way, D-Rats works on my Mac. It works just as good as on my DWB (Dumb Windows Box).<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">Buddy WB4OMG<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><br></span></div></span></div></span></div><div id="replyPrefaceElement">On Jul 22, 2010, at 10:20:54 AM, "Dan Smith" <<a href="mailto:dsmith@danplanet.com">dsmith@danplanet.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: blue; color: blue; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="width: 764px; "><div id="felix-mail-header-block" style="color: black; background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: silver; padding-bottom: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; width: 764px; "><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="70px" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: gray; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; "><span>From:</span></td><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: black; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 5px; "><span title=""Dan Smith"
; <dsmith@danplanet.com>">"Dan Smith" <<a href="mailto:dsmith@danplanet.com">dsmith@danplanet.com</a>
></span></td></tr><tr><td width="70px" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: gray; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; "><span>Subject:</span></td><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: black; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 5px; "><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Re: [drats_users] D-Rats and Mac OS-X</span></td></tr><tr><td width="70px" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: gray; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; "><span>Date:</span></td><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: black; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 5px; "><span>July 22, 2010 10:20:54 AM EDT</span></td></tr><tr><td width="70px" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: gray; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; "><span>To:</span></td><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8
pt; color: black; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 5px; "><span title=""Discussion of D-RATS" <drats_users@intrepid.danplanet.com>">"Discussion of D-RATS" <<a href="mailto:drats_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">drats_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="felix-mail-content-block" style="color: black; background-color: white; width: 764px; "><div style="font-family: monospace; color: black; background-color: white; font-size: 8pt; "><pre>> Has anyone worked out the software needed to make use of D-Rats in
> Kiss mode? I'm hoping not to need to get a Windows laptop but to use
> my Macbook....
In KISS mode, no additional software should be required and it should
work just fine on a Mac.
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Dan Smith
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