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Re: D-RATS Training
Hello Jim, I am going to start a D-RATS Training course this Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014 on the AE5HE RATflector at 7 PM (MDT). There will be four sessions scheduled for one hour each. The sessions will be on Sept. 11, 25, Oct 9 and 23. Send me an email at kb5hpt@... and I will get you registered and send you some additional information about the training. 73, Lew, KB5HPT |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
Did what you said, tried the Alabama Statewide
ARES, bingo, connected! Had no idea the default reflector was off-line. When the previous one said "connection refused," that should have told me that I was getting out. Another problem scratched off the list. Perhaps I don't have a router problem after all, we'll see. Learned another lesson, I expected the reflector to be up and it wasn't. Something is working, now I was able to see N3TSZ broadcast. Jim At 06:35 PM 9/9/2014, you wrote: James R. Holtzman Empirical Technology Carmichael, CA 95608 (916) 487-9712 emptech@... |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
Alan Proffitt
开云体育Try connecting to the Training reflector.? RAT is offline.? That is why you get that message.? Same thing happened to me several weeks ago.? So – you are getting out to the internet. ? From: d-rats_group@... [mailto:d-rats_group@...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:33 PM To: d-rats_group@... Subject: RE: [d-rats_group] Crup D-Star Program ? ? Two reasons, as d-rats starts up, it tries to announce itself to the internet, or to the server.
James R. Holtzman |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
Two reasons, as d-rats starts up, it tries to announce itself to the
internet, or to the server.
I get an error message "RAT: Unable to connect (Unable to connect ((10061, "Connection refused))). Second, I don't know if this is an automatic thing or not, but without touching anything, I saw the message CQCQCQCQ try to go out, and it was highlighted in yellow, I read somewhere that showd there was an error and it didn't go out.? I may be reading this all wrong. I haven't used d-star/d-rats in a long time, but when I used to use it, I remember seeing traffic from all over the world. I also recently changed to a new router, bought a MikroTik, with takes a lot more setting up than your run of the mill d-link or linksys.? I have a lot of configuration to do, that could be part of the problem too, but you know what they say, can't see the forest through the trees, could be just me and something simple. I'm all ears, where should I go next, for one thing, should we start a new thread or is this ok with everybody? Jim At 06:05 PM 9/9/2014, you wrote: ?
James R. Holtzman |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
Don't touch the device manager. Leave the settings at the defaults. Set the port speed to match the radio in D-RATS preferences>radio...
If you think you are not connecting to the internet, it might be because the default ratflector is offline. Look in the database section of this group for more internet based ratflectors to connect to. |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
So, according to the tables I've seen, the 92AD should be 38.4K,
understood.? How about the baud rate of the
com port itself via the device manager? Jim At 05:39 PM 9/9/2014, you wrote: ?
James R. Holtzman |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
Alan Proffitt
开云体育Hi -? how do you know you are not connecting to the internet – do you mean you are not connecting to a ratflector?? RAT is currently not working, try a different one, like the? Training one and see if you connect. ? -AE5RX ? From: d-rats_group@... [mailto:d-rats_group@...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 7:58 PM To: d-rats_group@... Subject: Re: [d-rats_group] Crup D-Star Program ? ? David:
James R. Holtzman |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
David:
The brand name on the adaptor is Trendnet, model tu-s9, I sell computer products, it's a brand I sell, did a driver update with windoze, it downloaded the prolific driver.? So far seems to be working.? I haven't read the article about counterfeit chips yet, will do. Dumb question, I went to the url where it has all the comments.? Looks like a lot of source code for fixes.? What do I do to upgrade my version?? I clicked on the zip, downloaded the file to a directory and expanded it, but that doesn't look like what I want, is it?? I was expecting to see a setup, install, or d-rats.exe file there, did I miss it? BTW, I saw the table of baud rates, yes, I have my 92AD at 38.5K, both in the program and set with the device manager.? I remember with the 2820s, the driver set to 38K isn't a problem but the program had to be set to 9600.? There seemed to be confusion as to what baud rate the device itself had to be. Jim At 05:30 PM 9/9/2014, you wrote: ?
James R. Holtzman |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
David:
Didn't see that one, I'll download it. Thanks At 05:30 PM 9/9/2014, you wrote: ?
James R. Holtzman |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
David:
Problem solved. After uninstalling, re-installing, going to c:\users\holtzman\appdata\roaming, now have d-rats. I could swear it was not there before, but there it is, and the config file is a plain text file, just what I wanted. OK people, you can close the trouble ticket on this one! Now back to two other problems, the problem keying up the radio may be gone, I downloaded the latest prolific drivers for my adaptor, may have solved the problem, not keying up the radio, time will tell. The problem connecting to the internet, until I get the router going right, I think that's going to still be a problem. But, can it be something as simple as a windoze firewall setting? I went into the firewall settings and told it to add r-rats as acceptable, still a problem. I just saw my screen try to put out a cqcqcq, all in yellow, if I recall that means it didn't go out, right? Jim At 04:45 PM 9/9/2014, you wrote: James R. Holtzman Empirical Technology Carmichael, CA 95608 (916) 487-9712 emptech@... |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
开云体育Hey Jim, ?Hmmm.. why such an old daily?? The newest daily is 04/17/2014 @
What kind of serial chip is in your USB adapter?? counterfit prolific, real prolific, FTDI, Si, etc??? If you have a cheap adapter using the counterfit chip, running the newest drivers will actually hurt you.? Read this: ??
D-RATS doesn't seen to require any port forwards.? It connects to the pre-defined "RAT flector" and just works. --David |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
David:
I uninstalled the program using control panel. I then went in and manually removed the d-rats directory tree. I reinstalled the older version, 0.3.3 or whatever it is. Brought the program up, and it retained all of my old settings, so that sort of proves that the settings are stored outside of the d-rats directory. I know, others have said it's hidden and I'll continue looking for it. My directory still looks nothing like what you show below, strange. I just found this yahoo group yesterday after looking all over the internet for a d-rats forum. You have been most helpful. Back to the drawing board - Jim At 04:45 PM 9/9/2014, you wrote: James R. Holtzman Empirical Technology Carmichael, CA 95608 (916) 487-9712 emptech@... |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
David:
I have been using 0.3.3 up until today, when I downloaded and installed daily 02172012. I noticed as it installed, deleted a bunch of previous files and I assume replaced them with new ones. My directory tree looks nothing like what you are showing. I have nothing important to save, I'm thinking about just deleting the entire directory tree and re-installing. The reason I went to the daily version, I've been having problems with loosing control of my 92ad, that is, sometimes it would xmit, and most of the time it wouldn't. I also downloaded the latest version of my usb-rs-232 adaptor. I actually have three problems, but I want to solve one at a time. My other problem, won't connect to the internet. I have a new MikroTik router, which has a complicated setup, and when I get it all figured out, I'll have to deal with its firewall and port forwarding. Jim At 04:45 PM 9/9/2014, you wrote: James R. Holtzman Empirical Technology Carmichael, CA 95608 (916) 487-9712 emptech@... |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
!- Start 2-Computer? 3-Program 4- Delete DRATS folder 5- Reinstall DRATS On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:30 PM, 'James R. Holtzman' emptech@... [d-rats_group] <d-rats_group@...> wrote:
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
Search your computer for a file called d-rats.config. It is in a hidden directory. ? Patrick (N3TSZ) From: "'James R. Holtzman' emptech@... [d-rats_group]" To: d-rats_group@... Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [d-rats_group] Crup D-Star Program
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David: I'm running win7 prof.? I have it showing hidden and system files. Under that path, under roaming, no d-rats directory. A few days ago I went through the installation directory, checking the "date modified" on files, I've never seen where a file was written to and the date not changed, settings have been changed but no files show a recent date.? There were many files there, and I have to admit, it was late and I could have missed something. I wonder where else the settings could be stored.? I suppose I could try a brute force method, completely remove all d-rats s/w, re-install and check to see if it has my old settings, if it did, that would tell me the settings are stored elsewhere. Although the manual said it didn't use the registry, I searched it too, no luck there. Thanks for getting back to me.? I have some other problems too, but better to find a previous thread or start a new one, rather than hijack this one. Jim At 03:43 PM 9/9/2014, you wrote: ?James R. Holtzman Empirical Technology Carmichael, CA? 95608 (916) 487-9712 emptech@... |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
开云体育Hello Jim, That's the behavior I have here on Win7 Enterprise SP1 though I'm bound to a corporate Active Directory tree.? I assume you rant the installer for 0.3.3?? If it helps, I have the following in that top level directory: -- Form_Templates logs maps messages static_locations debug.log d-rats.config repeater.config repeater.log -- --David On 09/09/2014 04:30 PM, 'James R.
Holtzman' emptech@... [d-rats_group] wrote:
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
David:
I'm running win7 prof.? I have it showing hidden and system files. Under that path, under roaming, no d-rats directory. A few days ago I went through the installation directory, checking the "date modified" on files, I've never seen where a file was written to and the date not changed, settings have been changed but no files show a recent date.? There were many files there, and I have to admit, it was late and I could have missed something. I wonder where else the settings could be stored.? I suppose I could try a brute force method, completely remove all d-rats s/w, re-install and check to see if it has my old settings, if it did, that would tell me the settings are stored elsewhere. Although the manual said it didn't use the registry, I searched it too, no luck there. Thanks for getting back to me.? I have some other problems too, but better to find a previous thread or start a new one, rather than hijack this one. Jim At 03:43 PM 9/9/2014, you wrote: ?
James R. Holtzman |
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
开云体育The answer depends on the operating system: Windows:?? $SystemDrive:\Users\$USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\D-RATS ? --> If you can't find this directory in File Explorer, you have to enable the displaying of hidden directories Linux:?? ??? ~$USER/.d-rats --David KI6ZHD On 09/09/2014 03:17 PM,
emptech@... [d-rats_group] wrote:
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Re: Crup D-Star Program
I know this question is kind of old, but if you can't remove it using control panel, according to the
d-rats documentation, because it is such a simple installation, all you have to do is delete the entire d-rats directory.? The program does not use the system registry at all. Since I offered this, does anybody know where d-rats stores its settings?? They are in some file in the d-rats directory tree somewhere, I haven't had luck finding the file.? I'm trying to find a way to save the settings so I can share them with others, rather than changing one item at a time. Thanks -? Jim? k6nra |
Patrick Connor