D-STAR Comms Version 1.0.106 released

A new verion of the popular Dstar Comms software has been released.

Matt M0DQW writes:

After a long time adding new features and testing (and enjoying the UK sun! not) I have released the latest version of Dstar Comms for you all to use and test.

As there are quite a few major features added that could effect other current features I will leave version 1.0.55 available to download until I am happy this is a stable release.

New Features:

1) POP3 RF Gateway
(Allows a user to relay emails from the internet to a RF Dstar Comms user)
POP3 domain is specified by user running the gateway.

2) Email Inbox
For receiving emails from a POP3 to RF Gateway

3) GPS Tracker
Allows GPS data to be recorded into a database and if the user is connected to the internet, the live position can be showed on an embedded google map webpage.

4) GPS Beacon Emulator
This has two features. The first you can take the NMEA from a third party GPS receiver, like a bluetooth device, and then broadcast it with callsign and gps message, as a dstar radio with a gps receiver would. Useful for those that don't have a Icom dedicated gps receiver.

The second feature allows a user to broadcast a fixed GPS location by entering their co-ordinates into dstar comms. This is also useful for those that don't have any means of receiving GPS data but would like to broadcast their location.

Both methods send GPRMC aswell as GPGGA which means that the GPS data, along with callsign and gps message will show on the receiving stations dstar radio POSI screen.

5) Email Gateway Log
If your installation of dstarcomms allows emails to be routed through you to the internet then you can now log who and when the email was routed. The contents of the email is NOT recorded for security reasons but the subject and sender is.

6) Bulletin
The bulletin page adds a easy way of sending a pre-written (or ad hoc) text message to multiple dstarcomms users. You are able to open a text file and send the text or you can write your own and save it to send later. This would be useful if sending directions to an event etc

7) Recall message bar
Everytime a message is sent, the message will be recorded in the recall message dropdown at the bottom of the screen. If the message needs to be sent again, then you can simply select the message from the dropdown and press send again.

Installation notes:
If you are overwriting a previous install of Dstar Comms then you may be prompted to keep an existing file called "setup.ini".
If asked to keep the current file you must select no so that the new "setup.ini" will be installed and overwrite the old one.

Usual rules apply to installing on Windows Vista, please see the sticky on Vista installation.

I have had a few comments about the installer for this program and I have taken these onboard and my next task will be creating a more user friendly installer that doesn't ask many questions.

If anyone has any issues installing this version 1.0.106 then please feel free to contact me directly for support.

Download:
http://www.dstarcomms.com/files/
dstarcommsV1_0_106FULL.zip

Thanks,

Matt - M0DQW

http://www.dstarcomms.com/