My work-around for that is to send a QST containing a GPS report every ten minutes. It keeps your connection alive, keeps your callsign on the station list, and doesn't print in the chat screen. Please help reduce Ratflector pollution.
From: "'John E. Malmberg' wb8tyw@... [d-rats_group]" To: d-rats_group@... Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2015 12:41 PM Subject: [d-rats_group] Ratflectors and keepalives.
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Currently there is an issue with using d-rats on ISP's like mine that
terminate idle sessions.
The proper solution is a a keep-alive packet that would be sent between
d-rats and the ratflector, but that the ratflector would not then relay.
Is anyone working on getting this into the d-rats client and ratflector
code?