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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Dan and all!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I had an issue between DRats and the DV
Dongle during Tropical Storm Debby that I am need to report, but will not go as
far as to report it as a bug yet.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I was running DRats o.3.3b6, DVtool 2.0b5,
and the client version of WebEOC on my Dell Notebook PC and I would get
disconnects on the DV tool, and Communications drop out on DRats. I have not
nailed down exactly what circumstances caused the drops in communication, but
initial ideas are that the drop out is occuring when I try to send information
in DRats or when I key the DV Dongle to send voice or data, it is
causing the one program to stop communication in the other. I am using the
default ports in both programs for internet comms and this is the first time I
have noticed the drop out problem ( It has not appeared before to my knowledge).
I have used Both DRats and the DV tool on this same PC in the past with out
apparent issue. One possibility is that WebEOC may be causing interoperability
problems as this is the first time I have used the 3 programs together and I do
not know what port the WebEOC client uses for comms.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> WHen I send something in DRats the port to
the Dongle will shut down and stop communication (the yellow and Blue LEDs go
out and the link to the reflector is broken. The green power LED goes to a
steady green instead of rapid flashing). This drop out is also intermittent
(does not happen every time) .</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PC info:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dell latitude D610</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1.86 Ghz pentium M proc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>running at 781 Mhz</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>.99 GB ram</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Running MS Windows XP Home SP3</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan McGrew kc4mts<BR><A
href="mailto:kc4mts@bellsouth.net">kc4mts@bellsouth.net</A><BR>EC Hernando
County ARES<BR>CERT trainer<BR>Bunch of other inconsequential
titles<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>