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Not sure if the is the correct area to post this, since the Drop Down only allows "Polls" as a Tag, however, when I wen to Messages there wasn't a place to enter a new Message

When taking a D-Rats class tonight, I was instructed to enter \QST\ in the IgnoreRegEx entery, and when I did D-Rats started giving me error messages

Here's some screen captures



Here's the error message



If I enter "Ignore", the error comes back in about 10 seconds, if I enter "Quit", D-Rats quits, and when I try to re-start D-Rats it give the same error message and fails to start - The only way to start D-Rats is to then manually edit the config file and remove QST from the "ignorere = QST" line

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

73,
Lew, KB5HPT

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.

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.

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