I've been playing around this weekend with D-Rats over packet, and have a fairly stable test bed running with three PCs. ?The goal was to connect non-DSTAR users using D-RATS without a lot of expense (ie, TNCs). ??
Until this weekend all of my attempts at this have used the free AGWPE on Win 7 and XP and Signalinks. ? I understand that it can be done, but I have never been able to make it work consistently. ??
Yesterday I had the idea of trying UZ7HO's soundmodem app in place of AGWPE. ?Wow, what a difference! ?Setup was very fast. ?I think the only thing I had to do to soundmodem was set the baud rate and select the right sound card source. ? ?
D-Rats is set up as if it is connecting to AGWPE. ?Works great! ??
Now, I wish even more than every that someone could take a look at the D-RATS repeater app to try to fix the problem that keeps it from working with TNCs and AGWPE. ?That, IMHO, would be nirvana - a way to connect PCs using analog radios, D-STAR radios, and the internet. ?
Still doing some testing. ?I'm putting together a document with screenshots of the setup. ?Will post that if anyone is interested.
Dan
W4TO
Dan Ozment