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Re: Weather QST Problem

 

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I would add to that request that you please select carefully what ratflector you target. People in Alabama and Washington State, don’t care what the weather is in eastern PA. When you do a general QST it is propagated all over the world, creating the same QSO disruption hazard at all ratflectors. Unfortunately, QST takes precedence over reflector specific filters, so the ability to ignore the QST announcements is limited when monitoring more than one ratflector in separate tabs, as well as the clutter that occurs in the main window.

Jack – KD4IZ

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ron via groups.io
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020 13:22
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [d-rats] Weather QST Problem

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Thanks Don and Ron,

I tried just http no go. I agree not to use a short timer. I usually just send it once during our weekly net. I guess the main problem I'm having is the time isn't counting down for some reason.

73, Ron NY3J

On 8/7/20 11:52 AM, Donald Hinsman wrote:

Ron,

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In my preferences??for OpenWeather, I use http:// and I see you use ?

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Don

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On 8/7/20 11:55 AM, WB3ILX wrote:

??contact Lee McDaniel at wb4qoj@gmail. com he does this all the time.

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I would ask that don't run it very often as it fills up everones screen which makes it hard to monitor conversations.?? Once every 3-6 hours is suggested.

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Ron

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 11:46 AM Ron via <rwenig=[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Don,

Yep, I should have included the main window screen shot.

Ron NY3J

On 8/7/20 11:24 AM, Donald Hinsman wrote:

In the setup, do you have "On" checked??? Here is mine>

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 8:09 AM Ron via <rwenig=[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to set up a weather QST in Windows 10 version 0.3.9. Below is my set up. The problem is the time won't count down so the QST is never sent.

73, Ron NY3J





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73 de N4VIP, Don - SFARES Inc. Treasurer and Secretary

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Re: Weather QST Problem

 

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Thanks Don and Ron,

I tried just http no go. I agree not to use a short timer. I usually just send it once during our weekly net. I guess the main problem I'm having is the time isn't counting down for some reason.

73, Ron NY3J

On 8/7/20 11:52 AM, Donald Hinsman wrote:
Ron,

In my preferences??for OpenWeather, I use http:// and I see you use https://?

Don


On 8/7/20 11:55 AM, WB3ILX wrote:
??contact Lee McDaniel at wb4qoj@gmail. com he does this all the time.

I would ask that don't run it very often as it fills up everones screen which makes it hard to monitor conversations.?? Once every 3-6 hours is suggested.

Ron

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 11:46 AM Ron via <rwenig=[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Don,

Yep, I should have included the main window screen shot.

Ron NY3J



On 8/7/20 11:24 AM, Donald Hinsman wrote:
In the setup, do you have "On" checked??? Here is mine>

image.png

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 8:09 AM Ron via <rwenig=[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to set up a weather QST in Windows 10 version 0.3.9. Below is my set up. The problem is the time won't count down so the QST is never sent.

73, Ron NY3J







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73 de N4VIP, Don - SFARES Inc. Treasurer and Secretary
Re: Weather QST Problem

 

?contact Lee McDaniel at wb4qoj@gmail. com he does this all the time.

I would ask that don't run it very often as it fills up everones screen which makes it hard to monitor conversations.? Once every 3-6 hours is suggested.

Ron

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 11:46 AM Ron via <rwenig=[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Don,

Yep, I should have included the main window screen shot.

Ron NY3J



On 8/7/20 11:24 AM, Donald Hinsman wrote:
In the setup, do you have "On" checked?? Here is mine>

image.png

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 8:09 AM Ron via <rwenig=[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to set up a weather QST in Windows 10 version 0.3.9. Below is my set up. The problem is the time won't count down so the QST is never sent.

73, Ron NY3J







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73 de N4VIP, Don - SFARES Inc. Treasurer and Secretary
Re: Weather QST Problem

 

Ron,

In my preferences?for OpenWeather, I use http:// and I see you use https://?

Don

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 9:46 AM Ron via <rwenig=[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Don,

Yep, I should have included the main window screen shot.

Ron NY3J



On 8/7/20 11:24 AM, Donald Hinsman wrote:
In the setup, do you have "On" checked?? Here is mine>

image.png

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 8:09 AM Ron via <rwenig=[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to set up a weather QST in Windows 10 version 0.3.9. Below is my set up. The problem is the time won't count down so the QST is never sent.

73, Ron NY3J







--
73 de N4VIP, Don - SFARES Inc. Treasurer and Secretary



--
73 de N4VIP, Don - SFARES Inc. Treasurer and Secretary
Re: Weather QST Problem

 

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Hi Don,

Yep, I should have included the main window screen shot.

Ron NY3J



On 8/7/20 11:24 AM, Donald Hinsman wrote:

In the setup, do you have "On" checked?? Here is mine>

image.png

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 8:09 AM Ron via <rwenig=[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to set up a weather QST in Windows 10 version 0.3.9. Below is my set up. The problem is the time won't count down so the QST is never sent.

73, Ron NY3J







--
73 de N4VIP, Don - SFARES Inc. Treasurer and Secretary
Re: Weather QST Problem

 

In the setup, do you have "On" checked?? Here is mine>

image.png

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 8:09 AM Ron via <rwenig=[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to set up a weather QST in Windows 10 version 0.3.9. Below is my set up. The problem is the time won't count down so the QST is never sent.

73, Ron NY3J







--
73 de N4VIP, Don - SFARES Inc. Treasurer and Secretary
Weather QST Problem

 

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Hi,

I'm trying to set up a weather QST in Windows 10 version 0.3.9. Below is my set up. The problem is the time won't count down so the QST is never sent.

73, Ron NY3J
Re: D_RATS on Pi keep alive

 

I remember reading a suggestion to send out a GPS-A position report about every 10 to 20 minutes to keep the station from being timed out. There is a setting on the D-Rats client side, not the ratflector, that purges station names from the active list at 60 minute intervals if no activity is seen coming from the station. I am not sure if this has anything to do with it, but it certainly won’t hurt to do it. I run a station client along with the StTammany ratflector as a Mail drop and file server and I sometimes see that it drops out. This could be caused by electrical glitches from storm activity, or due to induced errors like a station dropping offline during a file transfer. Often the repeater stays running but the client side shuts down. I try to check the status of the station at least once or twice a day. This station is running on a Pi-3b.
Re: D_RATS on Pi keep alive

 

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I bet it's their upstream router having the NAT session time out.? Try to either increase the timeout settings on your router or increase the D-rats ping interval on the D-rats client.

--David


On 07/31/2020 11:27 AM, Al Massaro wrote:

I have 2 local hams running a recently released image with D-RATS on it, they are both experiencing disconnect from the rat on what seems to a time setting. The only way to wake it back up is to ping twice then it will connect to the rat and go on till the next "TIME OUT" . We have already reset the wlan0 to not timeout, we have disabled the screen time out in the Pi, I have even tried port forwarding 9000 on one of them thinking that would keep the connection alive. What else is there to cause a timeout? Internet connection is available as normal, so what would cause D-RATS to disconnect???
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AL M
KF5SMH

Re: D_RATS on Pi keep alive

 

Have you looked at the log on the RAT to see what's going on?

73 de N4VIP, Don

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 12:27 PM Al Massaro <almassaro1@...> wrote:
I have 2 local hams running a recently released image with D-RATS on it, they are both experiencing disconnect from the rat on what seems to a time setting. The only way to wake it back up is to ping twice then it will connect to the rat and go on till the next "TIME OUT" . We have already reset the wlan0 to not timeout, we have disabled the screen time out in the Pi, I have even tried port forwarding 9000 on one of them thinking that would keep the connection alive. What else is there to cause a timeout? Internet connection is available as normal, so what would cause D-RATS to disconnect???
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AL M
KF5SMH



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73 de N4VIP, Don - SFARES Inc. Treasurer and Secretary
D_RATS on Pi keep alive

 

I have 2 local hams running a recently released image with D-RATS on it, they are both experiencing disconnect from the rat on what seems to a time setting. The only way to wake it back up is to ping twice then it will connect to the rat and go on till the next "TIME OUT" . We have already reset the wlan0 to not timeout, we have disabled the screen time out in the Pi, I have even tried port forwarding 9000 on one of them thinking that would keep the connection alive. What else is there to cause a timeout? Internet connection is available as normal, so what would cause D-RATS to disconnect???
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AL M
KF5SMH
Re: \QST\ entry in IgnoreRegEx causes errors

 

Your Ignore RegEx line should look like this:
\[QST]|CQCQCQ\:

Patrick (N3TSZ)


On Monday, July 27, 2020, 10:41:28 AM EDT, Daryl Stout <wx1der@...> wrote:


Glen,

? In the Ignore RegEx box, it MUST be entered like this, to "filter" out QST's and CQ's:

??\[QST\] \[CQCQCQ\]?

?In otherwords, backslash, left bracket, QST, backslash, right bracket, space (this MUST be there), backslash, left bracket, CQCQCQ, backslash, right bracket

? If you enter anything besides this, D-Rats will CRASH every time. This is how is WORKS on my system, running Windows 10 64-bit.

? Then under Chat, select ADD FILTER. For the first one, it is [QST] (left bracket, QST, right bracket). For the second one, it is CQCQCQ: (CQCQCQ, colon).

? The Mode Overview file, in my D-Rats Shared Folder, and at ?-- covers this as well.

? One may be able to do more than 2 filters, but for me, all I've needed to do is filter out the QST's and CQ's...so my chat window isn't so cluttered up.

Daryl, WX4QZ
Re: \QST\ entry in IgnoreRegEx causes errors

 

Glen,

? In the Ignore RegEx box, it MUST be entered like this, to "filter" out QST's and CQ's:

??\[QST\] \[CQCQCQ\]?

?In otherwords, backslash, left bracket, QST, backslash, right bracket, space (this MUST be there), backslash, left bracket, CQCQCQ, backslash, right bracket

? If you enter anything besides this, D-Rats will CRASH every time. This is how is WORKS on my system, running Windows 10 64-bit.

? Then under Chat, select ADD FILTER. For the first one, it is [QST] (left bracket, QST, right bracket). For the second one, it is CQCQCQ: (CQCQCQ, colon).

? The Mode Overview file, in my D-Rats Shared Folder, and at ?-- covers this as well.

? One may be able to do more than 2 filters, but for me, all I've needed to do is filter out the QST's and CQ's...so my chat window isn't so cluttered up.

Daryl, WX4QZ
Re: \QST\ entry in IgnoreRegEx causes errors

 

Something else to consider along this thread, there are times when QSTs are necessary and useful, but you just don't want the [QST] and beacon messages clogging up the main chat window.? That is where the filters come in handy.? For example, I post Tropical Weather Updates and Hurricane Reports as QST file dumps when we have storms of concern to the Continental US.? This information is pulled directly from the National Weather Service.? To a station in an affected area that may not have access to this information, being able to receive information about a storm intensifying or changing direction could be important.? Having the program ignore the [QST] transmissions completely could result in you missing something important.? The CQCQCQ messages are different as the transmission is caused by corrupted information or the transmitting station not having the GPS information on their radio still running while they are running D-Rats through the radio.? There is no interest in seeing corrupted data.? On another issue, I have never used the backslashes on the command lines and the program still changes messages with my callsign to the proper color and seems to affect the CQCQCQ messages by fading them out.
Re: D-RATS 0.3.9 on Linux Mint 20 - Python Dependency Issue

 

Uhhhh...no.? While I really appreciate your effort to navigate this minefield, this is such a kludge to install it this way that I think I'll wait until the developer (team) switches to Python3.? I like d-rats...and intend to use it for our net here in Sun City Center, but not in this state.? I'll just keep an old laptop around with an older version of d-rats on ubuntu/mint until d-rats gets a new engine.??

Thanks, though...
Keith/KI5US
K3PDR Ratflector mail

 

To all users of the Philadelphia Digital Radio Association (K3PDR) Ratflector. I recently discovered that K3PDR-1 was not forwarding mail via the internet. I have since updated the Gmail account associated with K3PDR-1 an is now operating properly. K3PDR-1 can not connect to a WL2K telnet server. However you may address mail to callsign@...,?as it is an internet based mail server.
Re: D-RATS 0.3.9 on Linux Mint 20 - Python Dependency Issue

 

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It's worth mentioning that Ubuntu "Eoan Ermine" is Ubuntu 19.10 but this discussion is about D-rats on Mint 20 aka Ubuntu 20.04 which is NEWER than Ubuntu 19.10.

Ps.? Mixing repo versions (newer or older) is fraught with risk.? If things break your system, this should be the first place to look but repairs may be impossible.

--David
KI6ZHD



On 07/25/2020 12:18 PM, Bobby Goins wrote:

Thanks Randy.

Although the link didn't get me what I needed, it put me on the right path.

I added 'deb eoan main universe' to my software sources and was able to install D-Rats, as well as, the python-related dependencies.? (Note that eoan is a newer ubuntu release than xenial.)

Bobby - KN4I



On 7/24/20 1:41 PM, Randy-W4LKS wrote:

d-rats in in my Linux Mint 19.1 standard repositories.? In the universe category...from the ubuntu repositories.

Try downloading the .DEB file from a repository here:

Then use apt to install the DEB.? Apt will resolve the dependencies.

Randy Wilkinson, W4LKS
Washington Digital Radio Enthusiasts
Spokane, WA
On 7/24/2020 6:58, Bobby Goins wrote:
Randy-W4LKS: D-Rats is not in the standard repositories for Linux Mint.? I did try to add the Ubuntu-Hams PPA, but it is so out of date that mint will not add it.

Bobby-KN4I


Re: D-RATS 0.3.9 on Linux Mint 20 - Python Dependency Issue

 

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Thanks Randy.

Although the link didn't get me what I needed, it put me on the right path.

I added 'deb eoan main universe' to my software sources and was able to install D-Rats, as well as, the python-related dependencies.? (Note that eoan is a newer ubuntu release than xenial.)

Bobby - KN4I



On 7/24/20 1:41 PM, Randy-W4LKS wrote:

d-rats in in my Linux Mint 19.1 standard repositories.? In the universe category...from the ubuntu repositories.

Try downloading the .DEB file from a repository here:

Then use apt to install the DEB.? Apt will resolve the dependencies.

Randy Wilkinson, W4LKS
Washington Digital Radio Enthusiasts
Spokane, WA
On 7/24/2020 6:58, Bobby Goins wrote:
Randy-W4LKS: D-Rats is not in the standard repositories for Linux Mint.? I did try to add the Ubuntu-Hams PPA, but it is so out of date that mint will not add it.

Bobby-KN4I

Re: \QST\ entry in IgnoreRegEx causes errors

 

The best way to keep QSTs from filling up the main Chat window is to create a filter with [QST] as the filter string. I place CQCQCQ in the ignore line in Prefferences and also create a second filter with the same string. The string \QST\ will never show up and would be useless since the program uses brackets and not back slashes at the beginning of every [QST] message.
Re: \QST\ entry in IgnoreRegEx causes errors

 

Thank you Patrick for clearing that up. Denis, look at the pdf file I sent you. The syntax is correct.

73,
Lew, KB5HPT
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