KG4EXA's Testing

Hardware

ID-800
IC-91AD
IC-2820H
Windows XP
Homemade ID-800 Cable
Icom Data Cable for IC-2820H and IC-91AD

March 21, 2008

Downloaded the Windows Installer version of 0.1.10. I tried to install it on my Vista Ultimate machine. Vista came up with an error saying that the program did not install correctly check to make sure it wasn't a corrupt file. Re-downloaded 0.1.10 installer again and tried to re-install.. Wored fine that time... Guess it was a corrupt download..

March 15, 2008

Downloaded 0.1.9

Used D-Rats during a presentation at the Stuart, Fl Hamfest. Chatting worked fine. Tried to do a file transfer with one of the other presenters. We could not get it working. Will try again. I was using my ID-800.

February 26. 2008

v0.1.6 ID-800 setup. Worked with another user in a local RF-RF chat session. He was running v0.1.6 also on a 91AD. Also was running the D-Star decoder at the same time. Worked fine.

February 17, 2008

Downloaded 0.1.6

Launched the program. Was unable to go into the settings page. I went into C:\Documents and Settings\YourUser\Application Data\D-RATS and renamed drats.config to drats.config.old.

Was able to launch D-Rats and go into the settings page.

Played around with the forms capability. Took a few minutes to figure out templates and messages.

Wondering... Can I use D-Rats via the DV-Dongle?

February 5, 2008

Was able to run the program for the first time but then it wouldn't run after that. Here is Dan's solution:

Go into C:\Documents and Settings\YourUser\Application Data\D-RATS and do one of the following:

1. Remove the drats.config file, which will reset your settings

completely

2. Edit the file in something like wordpad and change the following

line:
logenabled = True

logenabled = False

Note the importance of the capital F. This will set logging back to disabled, which will let you start the program, set a download directory, and then re-enable logging.

Go into File->Main Settings, "Data" tab. Specifically select a download directory and then hit the save button. The log gets written to the download directory, but if there isn't one set, it will fail to open the log like this.

Was able to get it to load up.