{"id":77,"date":"2008-08-12T13:05:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T13:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.danplanet.com\/wordpress\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-02-09T16:17:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:17:55","slug":"d-rats-in-qst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danplanet.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/d-rats-in-qst\/","title":{"rendered":"D-RATS in QST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The September issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/qst\/\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/qst\/\">QST<\/a>  arrived in my mailbox yesterday, complete with my D-RATS article on page 34!<\/p>\n<p>The idea to write an article about D-RATS came much earlier in the year (way back in February), once we had used it rather extensively in our Tuesday night on-the-air testing sessions.&nbsp; As such, a couple of the screenshots show version 0.1.6, which seems ancient to me now.&nbsp; It also means the article mentions only features that have been around for a long time.&nbsp; Thus it leaves out most of the interesting mapping features and the new session support for unattended transfers, tunneling of TCP traffic, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s nice to see it there and hopefully people will check out the D-RATS wiki for the <a href=\"http:\/\/d-rats.danplanet.com\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/d-rats.danplanet.com\">updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article is available in PDF format <a href=\"http:\/\/static.danplanet.com\/preserve\/KK7DS_QST_D-RATS.pdf\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/static.danplanet.com\/preserve\/KK7DS_QST_D-RATS.pdf\">here<\/a> .&nbsp; The editors of QST have graciously allowed me to reproduce the article on my personal web site.&nbsp; Please note the QST copyright and do not distribute it further.<\/p>\n<p>In other D-RATS news, we did a fair bit of real-life work with it over the weekend at the Hillsboro Air Show.&nbsp; We used the forms capability to send several &#8220;lost child&#8221; reports back and forth between the first aid tents and the command post, which worked quite well.&nbsp; We also used the text messaging capabilities to send some tactical messages while loud jets were overhead.&nbsp; The text messaging also helped to notify someone of a non-critical event instead of tying up the voice frequency and net control operator.<\/p>\n<p>We did run into some issues both mornings, which seemed to be caused by some sort of weird RFI corrupting packets in just the right way to trigger a bug.&nbsp; I still haven&#8217;t been able to reproduce it locally, but I did get some debug information captured which might be enough to spot something.&nbsp; I hope I don&#8217;t have to wait until next year&#8217;s show to try out the changes!<\/p>\n<p>We also tested the image sending (resize\/resample) functionality a little bit, but didn&#8217;t use it heavily because of timing.&nbsp; However, below is an image of some guy with a callsign of KK7DS who posed (against his will) for a sample shot:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danplanet.com\/\/images\/stories\/dan\/dan_at_airshow.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"6\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The September issue of QST arrived in my mailbox yesterday, complete with my D-RATS article on page 34! 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