I ran into an issue tonight with D-Rats 0.3.9 under Windows 10 64-bit (which I thought was the latest version). While I have 6 raftlectors set up to choose from, I am usually on the St. Tammany Ratflector...but will be on the AE5HE Ratflector, when I'm primary or backup Net Control for the New Mexico D-Star Net, on the 2nd or 4th Thursday, respectively.
Tonight, while on the St. Tammany Ratflector for the Arklatex D-Star Net, I posted a message, kidding El, KD4JL (we only pick on the ones we care about...and with friends like us, you don't need any enemies (hi hi))...but it got posted on numerous ratflectors at the same time.
El told me "your keyboard is really screwy". Glen, KG5CEN, said when he pinged my station, he got "Station WX4QZ running D-RATS 0.3.9 on Windows 8->10 (6, 2, 9200,2, ") -- he noted "I have never seen those sort of numbers after the version before", and added "In contrast, the KG5CEN-1 returns? Station KG5CEN-1 running D-RATS 0.3.9 beta 3 on Linux - Raspbian GNU/Linux 10".? I only have ONE COPY of D-Rats running here.
I don't know if it was the latest update to Windows 10 - 2004 update from Microsoft, that messed things up...or folks are linking MULTIPLE ratflectors together. To me, the only time if a message should go out like that would be for a QST, set to all ratflectors joined to, or just the current one. The ONLY QST's I sent out are the openweather data at 30 minutes past the hour, and the GPS-A data for aprs.fi at 15 minutes past the hour. Yet, when I go to aprs.fi, my callsign is NOT on there with the rest of the stations from central Arkansas.
So, what I'm going to do is ONLY enable the ONE ratflector that I am on at the time, and DISABLE the rest of them (including the 2 net chat rooms I have been joined to)...especially if there are going to be multiple linkings going on. Or, instead of using D-Rats for net checkins, I'll go to NetLogger (which I'm trying to set up, as logging with Windows Notepad is a bear), and quit using D-Rats...and be available only via Email or WL2K. While some nets also have Facebook groups, not everyone is on Facebook. D-Rats has been a great help during nets, but I'd hate to have to get rid of it.
If someone can provide some clarification on this, I'd appreciate it. This was very frustrating to me, to say the least. it reminds me of when on Echolink, stations connected would link to a station that was also linked to a conference server, and it'd put the whole thing into a digital loop, where no one could transmit. I do know that the *WX_TALK* conference server will detect if a station connects with conference mode enabled, and it will immediately disconnect them.
Daryl, WX4QZ
Daryl Stout