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<DIV>Thanks for your response. I'm still trying to learn all the functionality of D-rats. I will try the 'broadcast text file' the next time we have a training net. We tried sending Missing Person reports using the Memo Form during training nets and found it to be too slow, especially during the occasional 'frantic situations' like a missing child at an air show. I was thinking it would be helpful to have a message template for immediate broadcast into the chat screen. I suppose it could become chaotic, if <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>miss</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>used. But it would be great to just call up a missing person template; enter all the ID fields and broadcast it. It would certainly work well in a simplex net. (Especially when the F-22 Raptor makes voice comms impossible).</DIV>
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<DIV>Any information is greatly appreciated...</DIV>
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<DIV>CFS<BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 9/20/10, Debbie <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>Fligor</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> <I><n9dn@arrl.net></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Debbie Fligor <n9dn@arrl.net><BR>Subject: Re: [drats_users] Chat 'Forms'...<BR>To: "Discussion of D-RATS" <drats_users@intrepid.danplanet.com><BR>Date: Monday, September 20, 2010, 12:46 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail><BR>On Sep 18, 2010, at 13:14, Charles Story wrote:<BR><BR>> INFO: <BR>> <BR>> D-Rats is the center-piece of our communications during the California Capitol Airshow again this year. Something we're doing now is: sending a Missing Person report by cut-and-paste directly into the chat screen to save time. A 'form' that would show as a block of text in the chat screen would be very useful on a simplex net.<BR><BR>Is there a reason that the "broadcast text file" option (in the File menu) doesn't work for this? You feed it a text file, and it goes to everyone's chat window, at least the time I tried it.<BR><BR><BR>-----<BR>-debbie<BR>Debbie Fligor, n9dn<BR>A.R.E.S of Champaign County AEC<BR>OES/IL ARRL <BR>email: <A href="http://us.mc826.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=n9dn@arrl.net" ymailto="mailto:n9dn@arrl.net">n9dn@arrl.net</A> <<A
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