<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Sorry for the delay, I've been away from e-mail this morning.<br><br>I did all of my testing with D-RATS v0.3.3b2 running on Fedora 13 Linux. I can try Windows this evening. Two different radios were used: <br>1. IC-2820 <br>2. IC-92AD with GPS mic. <br><br>Both yielded basically the same results, position reports were "hit and miss". The 2820 performed a little better, but it's antenna wasn't dancing around while I moved about like the IC-92AD was.<br><br>In the D-RATS debug log, I could see check sum errors being reported on the received data in the instances that showed up as chat data. <br><br>I think I saved the log file, I can post it this evening if that's helpful.<br><br>Mike<br><br><br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size:
12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Francis Miele <fran@miele-family.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users@intrepid.danplanet.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, August 12, 2010 8:44:45 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [drats_users] gps ???<br></font><br>
Thanks Mike!<br><br>Did you do your tests on your Linux machine or your Windows machine?<br><br><span style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div><title>Fran Signature</title>
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</div></div></div></span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Mike Heitmann <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:n0so@att.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:n0so@att.net">n0so@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
OK, I did a little testing this evening. I am able to receive position<br>
reports from voice stations - as long as they are reporting position ;-)<br>
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That said, I do see LOTS of errors, and those show up as chat data<br>
because I have the "sniff" and "raw text" options checked in the port<br>
preferences. If I look in my log file, there are many instances of:<br>
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APRS CRC mismatch: 7968 != 0DF7 (N0SO>API92,DSTAR*:!<br>
^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>
and they appear to correspond to the chat messages.<br>
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The saving grace for voice stations is: unless your transmissions are<br>
very short, you get multiple chances to get a good position report while<br>
the operator is talking.<br>
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