Tried to post a message tonight and it didn't "take", so if this is a duplicate, I have to apologize:
Dan, thanks for the kudos. I think you'll even be more happy that we have been able to make the tnc work DIRECTLY with the ratflector software without needing the TCP/IP "layer".
Mr. Thielen from the Toledo Mobile Radio Association shared with me his configuration file. Turns out that DRATS puts an extra colon (:) behind the com port setting that causes it to mess up the repeater/reflector software during startup. Fix the configuration file, problem goes away.
The configuration file is named repeater.config and can be found using windows search. It will be in different locations depending upon which operating system you are running.
Anyway, our old configuration was:
devices = [('net:192.168.1.147:20011', ''), ('tnc:COM6:0:', '9600')]
Remove the extra colon
devices = [('net:192.168.1.147:20011', ''), ('tnc:COM6:0', '9600')]
And now the TNC works directly with the repeater/ratflector software. If you have a soundcard, all you need to do is get the AGWExpress software from and it will set up a virtual com port to the TCP port on the soundcard modem software.
Best Regards,
Jeff Scoville AE5ME
