[FARC] 145.75 packet off, 145.75 d-rats on

[joseph.durnal at gmail.com]

Roland,

Will W3FDK-3 still work as a digipeater. That was our backup link to the  
various winlink nodes around the state on 145.75. If they could work  
together, that would be great.

Thanks & 73 de Jospeh M. Durnal NE3R


On Apr 27, 2011 7:22am, "Rolan O. Clark" <rolan.clark at comcast.net> wrote:
> All,





> I replaced the packet at the FARG site with a D-RATS system yesterday,  
> still on 145.75.





> D-RATS is a digi program written for DSTAR and you can use the function  
> to connect to W3FDK-9 and upload and download files. Example, to leave


> a message for some one, make a file using notebook, preferably, and you  
> can call the file something such as w4ccc from w3xxx and they can then  
> download


> the file and read it. These are open files so anyone can download any  
> file.





> You can send messages using any of the several message forms in D-RATS to  
> anyone within simplex range.





> There is message forwarding using one of the several message forms in  
> D-RATS so if you know someone is monitoring you can send the a message  
> via w3fdk-9


> if they are out of simplex range.





> This is experimental and the D-RATS function was not intended for this  
> use but I wanted to try it and have a system for DSTAR users to play with  
> D-RATS, the digi part of DSTAR


> and it runs about the same speed as packet.





> I have notified the writer of D-RATS what we are doing and he may be  
> interested in expanding his program to be more like packet.





> Please let me know if you have any questions, this is all new to us but  
> myself or Kirk, KB3ONM will try and help.





> Take care,





> 73 de rolan w3fdk











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