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It is recommended, and is a simple matter, that if you do not want to see the weather reports and other QSTs from the only few stations trying to use D-Rats on a regular basis, you should set up a filter to keep the QSTs from appearing in the Main Chat window.??If you don’t like those, you will really get upset during hurricane season when I periodically post the National Weather Service Bulletins and Alerts for hurricanes that threaten the entire Gulf Coast of the U.S.??It is true that the stations don’t need to be broadcasting their weather or propagation conditions on multiple ratflectors.??That can be adjusted to send those out on just the local ratflector that he is using at the time.??I don’t need to know what the weather conditions are in Portugal when I live in the U.S.??Those QSTs can be limited to the current port or to All ports.??A simple request to change the frequency of the broadcasts or to limit it to the ratflector he uses locally would seem to be better than blacklisting him from the system for the sin of actually using the program.

QSTs are a feature of D-Rats that can serve a purpose and there are methods to block these features if you don’t want to see them.??I have the QST filter set myself.??D-Rats issues an alert tone and turns the filter’s label red when a QST comes in. It keeps it out of the Main Chat window for when I was acting as a Net Control Station but still lets me glance at them when I get a chance to see if there is anything of interest.??One QST lets folks know they can download a list of nets, and other Ratflectors.??Another may let you know that a station is acting as a Mail Drop and File Server that will allow you to leave messages for another user that is presently offline so you don’t need to leave the equipment running in the hope that he shows up soon.

Some of us are just happy that the systems are being used at all, as it appears they have been relegated to the backwaters of Ham systems.??D-Rats is capable of serving as a great tool for groups that have access to D-Star radios.??The system is more versatile than C4FM in its ability to transfer data and written message traffic from one station to another.??Its ability to show station positions on a map lets it act similar to APRS without having to run separate equipment.??However, there are very few of us who are actually trying to learn and use the system.??The old timers are used to doing everything via voice with a pencil and a pad of paper.??This is not good for modern use to Emcomm managers who are now leaning strongly to Winlink systems to provide access to forms and formal written traffic that can be transferred error free from one place to the other.??Now everyone is jumping on the DMR bandwagon because the radios are at present the least expensive.??They are great for talking as long as you have a repeater, or a hotspot and the Internet stays up.??Lose the Internet and everything drops back to local repeaters, lose the repeater and now you are reduced to simplex.??Even in simplex mode, D-Rats can still perform most of its functions, but the radios are among the most expensive.