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D-Rats over Repeater
Our weekly group uses a nice Icom repeater stack for D-Rats practice weekly. We have found chat is fine, but file transfers are slower and less reliable over the repeater than simplex. We suspect a
By Michael Mandell · #2500 ·
Re: Icom 9700 via USB only
I had the same issue with my 7100 via USB. I called Icom and got a guy who knew the whole story. The USB cable sends out serial in packet format, so it sends it in bursts of data. A short "chat" line
By Michael Mandell · #2499 ·
Icom 9700 via USB only
Has anyone been able to successfully use D-RATS with the 9700 using just a USB cable? I'm able to get the radio to TX when I start D-RATS, but it TXs multiple times non-stop until it eventually stops.
By Kevin D. Cornwell · #2498 ·
Re: Instructions for installing new D-Rats on Microsoft Windows
The MSYS2 distribution for Microsoft Windows no longer supports 32 bit machines, and will be dropping Windows 7 support sometime this year, if they have hot yet done so. I have not tested on a 32 bit
By John E. Malmberg · #2497 ·
Re: Instructions for installing new D-Rats on Microsoft Windows
Need 64 bit machine for testing these John?? Ralph Barbakoff (WA9LKZ)
By Ralph Barbakoff · #2496 ·
Re: Instructions for installing new D-Rats on Microsoft Windows
Updated tarball and wheel files uploaded. This fixes the pip install on Ubuntu 20.04 and with a small additional fix gets the pip install working on AntiX-21 Linux. On AntiX-21 Linux, and this may
By John E. Malmberg · #2495 ·
Instructions for installing new D-Rats on Microsoft Windows
Hello All, I have added to the ham-radio-software WIKI information on how to install the Python3 based D-Rats on Microsoft
By John E. Malmberg · #2494 ·
Re: WL2K Messages Sent But Never Received
Hi Glen! I seem to have it working... * First, an SMTP server must be configured in Preferences/Outgoing mail, a a POP mail address must be configured and enabled using SSL in Preferences/Email
By Carl Keller <KC3KFW@...> · #2493 ·
Re: WL2K Messages Sent But Never Received
Thanks. I have already tried sending to regular email. That works, but Winlink does not. I'll try sending to a different Winlink account,??and I'll try your suggested changes. Carl
By Carl Keller <KC3KFW@...> · #2492 ·
Re: WL2K Messages Sent But Never Received
It is possible that Winlink decided it was a waste of its time to send a message right back to the station that initiated the message in the first place. You might try sending it to one of your
By Glen Strecker · #2491 ·
WL2K Messages Sent But Never Received
Hi All! D-Rats newbie here. I have managed to get D-Rats to send messages to my Winlink Express email address. The Debug Log and the Event Log both show that it is successfully sent, but I never
By Carl Keller <KC3KFW@...> · #2490 ·
Re: RS-MS1IA and D-Rats
Further info.... Chat from phone app to DRats is visible when RAW Text is checked. Today I exchanged email with Ray Novak at Icom and it looks as though he is going to request an update to RSMS1 app
By Michael Mandell · #2489 ·
Re: Installation requirements for Python3 D-Rats
Thanks for the explanation, John. I don't keep anything on my shack PC that I would not want exposed or lost, other than maybe my logbook.? I'll try to remember to back that up to a USB stick, just
By David Ackrill <david.ackrill@...> · #2488 ·
Re: Installation requirements for Python3 D-Rats
In order to use D-Rats, you need a python interpreter with the GTK+ library, or it does work. GTK+ is the graphics library that is used on Linux and was available for almost all platforms. It
By John E. Malmberg · #2487 ·
Re: Installation requirements for Python3 D-Rats
I'm going to expose my ignorance here, but what does that mean for ordinary Windows users that don't use Python or even know what Gtk+ means, please? Does it mean that we won't be able to use Drats
By David Ackrill <david.ackrill@...> · #2486 ·
Re: Installation requirements for Python3 D-Rats
In my previous message, I meant not using a commercial Python for creating a single windows package containing Python, Gtk+, D-Rats, and lzhuf. 73, -John
By John E. Malmberg · #2485 ·
Installation requirements for Python3 D-Rats
Hello all, I intend to put this in a Wiki: The Python2 D-Rats is pretty much frozen, no more updates, and it does not have bug fixes that are in the Python3 version. If you want to run Python3
By John E. Malmberg · #2484 ·
Re: DRATS computer to radio data cable recommendations
I started out using the orange cable from RT Systems, but that cable went bad on me.? I ended up ordering data cables directly from Icom which has worked well.? I am not familiar with the older
By Glen Strecker · #2483 ·
File Notifications #file-notice
The following files and folders have been uploaded to the Files area of the [email protected] group. * /D-Rats/debian/bullseye/lzhuf_2022.10.08-1_amd64.deb (
By Group Notification <noreply@...> · #2482 ·
3 files uploaded #file-notice
The following files and folders have been uploaded to the Files area of the [email protected] group. * /D-Rats/windows/lzhuf_md5.txt ( /g/d-rats/files/D-Rats/windows/lzhuf_md5.txt
By Group Notification <noreply@...> · #2481 ·