Dave, Do not try to type at the same time you are linked with another station, because flarq is going to be sending keystrokes to VBdigi, often at the same time as you try to type. As you point out, NBEMS is a messaging system, not a chat system. It is also primarily for 2m emergency messaging, or NVIS on HF, where there is little QSB to contend with.
The best way to play with it is to first establish contact without using Flarq. Then one of you presses the beacon button and takes it from there, only sending a stored email, stored text message, or picture and don't type until the progress bar on Flarq has progressed from white to green to full green and then white again. 73, Skip KH6TY > Oh dear, fist trial with NBEMS was not a happy one, for me, I'm afraid... > > Appart from not knowing my way round the program, which is not the fault > of the program of course, I also had terrible trouble with it missing > keystrokes. > > Either it gave lowercase where I wanted uppercase, or it missed space > bar keystrokes and it even missed several letters if I did not slowly > and deliberately hit the keys as I transmitted. > > Appologies to the LY2 station who tried to work me on 20M today, if he's > logged onto this reflector, I accidentally clicked on the Beacon and he > responded and it went downhill from there. > > I guess it's not meant to be a chat mode system, but I'll be warry of > how I play with it from now on! I'm using Windows 2000 pro on a 1.9GHZ > AMD Sempron with a fair amount of RAM, if that helps debugging what was > going wrong. > > Dave (G0DJA) > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
