Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Gateway / NI-Star System Requirements

2010-09-06 Thread Nate Duehr
to decide if you want to pay the premium and be an early-adopter, so to speak. -- Nate Duehr n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] D-STAR in Las Vega$

2010-07-19 Thread Nate Duehr
On 7/18/2010 1:53 PM, J. Moen wrote: The other Las Vegas repeater is listed as N7ARR. http://www.dstarusers.org/viewrepeater.php?system=N7ARR http://www.dstarusers.org/viewrepeater.php?system=N7ARR shows only 2 callsigns on its Last Heard report for the last 14 days, but that page also

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Are you exprerencing anti d-star in your area?

2010-07-12 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 12, 2010, at 2:02 AM, Nate Duehr wrote: All it takes to grow D-STAR (or any other new mode in any particular area) is time and money... D-STAR has flourished in some areas due to massive influxes of taxpayer dollars in the form of government grants... some local, some Federal

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: G2 32 bits vs 64 bits

2010-06-22 Thread Nate Duehr
packages should be the order of the day... and has been since 1996... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Dstar

2010-06-03 Thread Nate Duehr
On 6/2/2010 3:41 AM, J. Moen wrote: Nate WY0X wrote: The guy asked if you could run D-STAR Gateways on wimpy computers. No, N9HSM's question was simply I got a question How [far] can you be be from the Dstar repeater before you drop out? or How close the Dstar has to be before you can get

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Dstar

2010-06-03 Thread Nate Duehr
On 6/2/2010 5:39 AM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: You've been a part of this same D-STAR Signal Coverage conversation many times and the answer is always the same, time after time. And you don't seem to see where even classic BER calculations have significant issues defining the quality of the signal

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Multiple 2820s / one callsign question

2010-06-03 Thread Nate Duehr
On 6/2/2010 11:30 AM, Gary Pearce KN4AQ wrote: Hi, Pete (and the group), Is the 8th position ID character included in call sign routing to individuals? If I have KN4AQ and KN4AQ^^A both registered (which I do, with ^ meaning the space character), are they treated totally separately? For

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Dstar

2010-06-03 Thread Nate Duehr
On 6/3/2010 5:52 PM, John Hays wrote: The company claims 20% BER to loss of usable signal on AMBE chips. Yeah, they couched it. (I've seen that spec too.) That's not the drop-out point, that's usable... you can't build a scale off of that as a known starting point. Usable could mean a lot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Dstar

2010-06-02 Thread Nate Duehr
of beans in the real world. But there was no pissing match here. Let's hear your thoughts on the topic. Give us the answer. I like your style, boss. You have answers. Fire 'em up. Send 'em to the list. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ID800 High power DV transmit issue- More info

2010-06-01 Thread Nate Duehr
, but worth a mention... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Dstar

2010-06-01 Thread Nate Duehr
published ones from DVSI. Unfortunately I don't have nor need one of those Service Monitors at that price. A local lab was trying to acquire one last year. I'll have to check and see if they ever received it. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Quick Check of Repeater Frequency

2010-05-27 Thread Nate Duehr
, Tom -Original Message- From: Nate Duehr n...@natetech.com To: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, May 27, 2010 12:41 am Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Quick Check of Repeater Frequency On May 26, 2010, at 11:16 AM, kb...@aol.com wrote: W3EOC W3EOC CHESTER

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] ID800 High power DV transmit issue

2010-05-26 Thread Nate Duehr
temperature (I hit that one once) and low/high voltages. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ID800 High power DV transmit issue- More info

2010-05-26 Thread Nate Duehr
the tester on the battery that tests the whole system under load. You may just be seeing a battery that's headed south, too. (If we're working off the What changed? theory. What's the voltage read when the engine is off?) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Quick Check of Repeater Frequency

2010-05-25 Thread Nate Duehr
On 5/25/2010 11:22 AM, kb...@aol.com wrote: Is there a quick way to verify the input frequency of a D-STAR Repeater? Ask the owner? :-) Nate WY0X

Repeaters/Infrastructure Building (Was: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: DSTAR newcomer FINISH)

2010-05-25 Thread Nate Duehr
On 5/25/2010 12:53 AM, J. Moen wrote: Thanks for making my point -- the D-STAR part is the easy part, and if you go non-ICOM, it's nearly free. The hard, and expensive work, is the traditional repeater part of it, which you have outlined very well. Yeah, I was just supporting your point with

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: DSTAR newcomer FINISH

2010-05-24 Thread Nate Duehr
On 5/24/2010 11:19 AM, J. Moen wrote: Yes, the simplest part of setting up a new D-STAR compatible repeater is the D-STAR part. The real work is the traditional stuff -- site, analog radios, duplexers, antennas etc. That would be ANY repeater, actually. ;-) Why do hams think the radio part

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Icom/Kenwood Digital Protocol was(RE: Honest Questions)

2010-05-19 Thread Nate Duehr
is the answer to TRBO on the commercial side, but I don't see *easy* interfaces happening to D-STAR anytime soon, unless that's some super-duper developer's hot button and they want to spend oodles and oodles of time figuring it out. We'll see... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Honest questions .....

2010-05-18 Thread Nate Duehr
Very well put, Ed. I agree with your sentiments about open vs. closed and how it can be applied to different pieces of D-STAR differently, and that was the whole point of my reply and questions. Comparing D-STAR to iPhone is somewhat an Apples-to-Oranges (pun intended? - GRIN!) comparison

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Honest questions .....

2010-05-17 Thread Nate Duehr
On 5/17/2010 11:57 AM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: And while you indicate that the G2 and DPlus protocols aren't open source, they definitely have been reversed engineered and we have third party solutions talking to them now. Which ones? Where can one find information on them? Did they publish

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Honest questions .....

2010-05-17 Thread Nate Duehr
On 5/17/2010 1:22 PM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: Nope, they aren't readily available for you to read. Did you see that written anywhere in what I said? Did you see me publish a URL to it? That's all I asked. Thank you for confirming that the answer is no, and that D-STAR development is as

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Honest questions .....

2010-05-17 Thread Nate Duehr
On 5/17/2010 1:51 PM, John Hays wrote: On 5/17/2010 11:57 AM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: And while you indicate that the G2 and DPlus protocols aren’t open source, they definitely have been reversed engineered and we have third party solutions talking to them now. Which ones? Where can one

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: I Want To Know???

2010-05-10 Thread Nate Duehr
if the system is performing up to snuff by just doing the link margin math... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com Please TRIM your replies or set your email program not to include the original message in reply unless needed for clarity. ThanksYahoo! Groups

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: I Want To Know???

2010-05-10 Thread Nate Duehr
. Test with multiple manufacturer's rigs before committing taxpayer monies. Seriously. Good luck with it. If you want to contact me off-list, I can ask and see if Icom ever got back to the person who was testing for some very large agencies... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] I have a Dvap question [1 Attachment]

2010-05-10 Thread Nate Duehr
the registration request had been taken care of. Thank you in advance, Bob N3PUG (The Pug Guy) Oxford, Ohio -- Nate Duehr n...@natetech.com http://facebook.com/denverpilot http://twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: I have a Dvap question

2010-05-10 Thread Nate Duehr
Why do you have to e-mail them? They don't let you do it yourself? Nate WY0X On May 10, 2010, at 10:30 PM, Bob N3PUG wrote: Below is the email that I did receive this past Sunday after registering the N3PUG A for the Dvap. When I try to use it with the A I get a (Receive Only) message.

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] I Want To Know???

2010-05-06 Thread Nate Duehr
! The collection tends to grow... instead of getting smaller over the years... not quite ready to be documented on that TV show Hoarders yet, but starting to feel the space/storage bulge! I've seen worse, though! -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] I Want To Know???

2010-05-06 Thread Nate Duehr
over in Oshkosh, WI later on in the summer, and Seattle in the fall... Wanna meet up at the Boeing or Telecom museums? I gotta go see those! ;-) Heh heh. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com http://facebook.com/denverpilot http://twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] No DSTAR in South Carolina or Georgia?

2010-05-05 Thread Nate Duehr
On 5/4/2010 12:44 PM, Francis Miele wrote: You can't blame the league. As I understand it, it is up to the repeater coordinating bodies in each state to supply the info to the league, If the repeaters are not coordinated, they probably don't get listed. Fran, W1FJM I haven't been the

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] No DSTAR in South Carolina or Georgia?

2010-05-05 Thread Nate Duehr
On 5/4/2010 2:32 PM, J. Moen wrote: It would make sense for ARRL to scrape off the info from http://www.dstarusers.org/repeaters.php http://www.dstarusers.org/repeaters.php and add that to their directories with a footnote about the source. That would be providing some more leadership, too.

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] US D-STAR band planning and directories (Was: No DSTAR in South Carolina or Georgia?)

2010-05-05 Thread Nate Duehr
On 5/4/2010 7:55 PM, John Hays wrote: I totally agree that coordinators need to get their act together and cleanup paper repeaters and even make highest and best use decisions for pairs (open and occupied is higher use than closed and quiet Coordinators are NOT allowed to make this decision,

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] US D-STAR band planning and directories (Was:No DSTAR in South Carolina or Georgia?)

2010-05-05 Thread Nate Duehr
On 5/5/2010 7:07 AM, Jay Maynard wrote: In the end, coordination is not a technical job. It's a political one. Actually if the FCC deems that you didn't do the technical side of coordination right, and testifies to such during a lawsuit, you might find yourself on the wrong side of a

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] US D-STAR band planning and directories

2010-05-05 Thread Nate Duehr
On 5/5/2010 3:34 PM, Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM wrote: Let me state this and asked if this is true as your statement: My Motorola GM300 is digital capable. My ACER Monitor is digital capable. My Motorola MTS2000 is digital capable. MY ICOM is Digital capable when it has the GMSK modem installed.

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR newcomer

2010-05-05 Thread Nate Duehr
On 5/5/2010 6:10 AM, rOn wrote: I am new to DSTAR and need some enlightenment. Other than temporary EMCOMM ops why would anyone want to connect DSTAR to the internet? I need facts not attacks. rOn Hi Ron, The only reason at the end of the day is to transmit voice or data to another D-STAR

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Repeater stack

2010-04-20 Thread Nate Duehr
record an off-air digital signal and then play it back, so you add attenuation and reverse-engineer any type of digital repeater, but expect to be in the $40K range for them, list. Probably $20-$25K real-world, pricing. Not something we're going to see too many hams doing, I suspect. -- Nate

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Repeater stack

2010-04-20 Thread Nate Duehr
On Apr 20, 2010, at 6:59 PM, ErnestK wrote: You can use a dual band antenna with a dipelxer and duplexers on each band but there are trade-offs. When we first put up W6DHS, we were using a dual band Comet 11dbi on 2 meters. We replaced the two meter side with a DB Products dipole array

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ARRL Field Day Rules - 145.67 simplex

2010-04-20 Thread Nate Duehr
users too much credit. LOL! :-) The owner put an analog repeater on the original UHF pair, got another UHF pair for the digital and segregated them. Heh. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ARRL Field Day Rules - 145.67 simplex

2010-04-20 Thread Nate Duehr
On Apr 20, 2010, at 9:50 PM, bruce mallon wrote: ANY digital on simplex is going to start a cat fight S... don't let the APRS or other Packet guys know that, okay? :-) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Linking vs. Source Routing

2010-04-10 Thread Nate Duehr
On 4/9/2010 8:48 AM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: Nate, Please get your fact straights before spreading FUD. FUD means Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, none of which I am spreading. D-PLUS was created before the DVDongle. D-PLUS is NOT REQUIRED for a D-STAR repeater, or one that is connected to the

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Linking vs. Source Routing

2010-04-08 Thread Nate Duehr
to the interloper and tell them what's happening. Trying to treat D-STAR like it wasn't source-routed and adding software to make it act like an analog system, is what got us to this so-called problem in the first place, not the other way around. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR communication

2010-04-08 Thread Nate Duehr
... :-) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR communication

2010-04-07 Thread Nate Duehr
, and someone popped for a helicopter flight... and he kindly fixed whatever he could for the different groups with outages while he was there...) http://www.rmham.org/gallery2/v/thorflyin/?g2_GALLERYSID=5b4d5ca730810adecbe62448cefc54f5 - for photos. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR communication

2010-04-07 Thread Nate Duehr
On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Nate Duehr wrote: However to separate Gateways Dumb fingers. That should have read: two separate Gateways... -- Nate Duehr n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR communication

2010-04-07 Thread Nate Duehr
, or a mixture of D-STAR and other digital/narrowband modes. Check with your local area frequency coordinators... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR communication

2010-04-07 Thread Nate Duehr
On 4/7/2010 9:51 AM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: Nate, A number of frequency coordinators have come up with new pairs for D-STAR which utilize portions of the band historically used as simplex. Didn't know that. Seems kinda silly. Being a member of the Frequency Coordination Committee here and

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Linking vs. Source Routing

2010-04-07 Thread Nate Duehr
On 4/7/2010 4:40 PM, Nicholas wrote: I may be asking a question that has already been answered. What is the difference between Linking (UR: KJ4MMCCL) and Source Routing (UR: /KJ4OXTC)? This is something I have yet to figure out. Thank you and 73s, Nick KF4SEK Cocoa, FL Quite a bit.

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR communication

2010-04-06 Thread Nate Duehr
On 4/6/2010 5:10 PM, Catrina White wrote: I am frequently using a repeater where there is NO ACTIVITY when I turn on the radio, listen for a few minutes, put on my reading glasses to see if anything is scrolling on the bottom of my IC 91ad, have it turned to high pwer, and use

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR communication

2010-04-06 Thread Nate Duehr
that it was there. It helps folks figure out where the coverage pattern really covers too, as they travel around the area. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Emergency comms poll.

2010-04-05 Thread Nate Duehr
On Apr 4, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: and the audio is much better than FM equivalents of IRLP and EchoLink. Ed WA4YIH Not technically possible unless the repeaters are interfaced incorrectly. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Alternative D-STAR Equipment

2010-03-18 Thread Nate Duehr
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXDN for more details. It blows D-STAR away, feature and functionality-wise, and is 100% incompatible with D-STAR radios, and infrastructure. It can only be very *loosely* said it's based upon D-STAR at best. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Alternative D-STAR Equipment

2010-03-18 Thread Nate Duehr
information. Rumors indicate that CI-V is a part of the *repeater* programming, and one German ham wrote Open Source software to read/write that data also. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com Please TRIM your replies or set your email program not to include

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Alternative D-STAR Equipment

2010-03-18 Thread Nate Duehr
the callsigns in DV mode in normal operation -- unless they've changed the software and I haven't upgraded... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] IC-2820H transmit says OFF

2010-03-15 Thread Nate Duehr
On 3/15/2010 2:41 PM, Marlin wrote: I just upgraded my IC-2200H to a IC-2820H. I using the ICOM software to program it. I programmed in a memory channel with my repeater info (my call, ur, rpt 1, rpt2, etc), but when I try to transmit, the IC-2820 display literally reads OFF and I can't

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] IC-88O

2010-03-15 Thread Nate Duehr
On 3/15/2010 3:55 PM, Barry Wilson wrote: Nate, We tried programming the IC-880 we received through the NCR Grant and the software doesn't give the option to set DV mode in its drop down menu. Have you heard of this problem? Perhaps it will appear after connecting the Software to the radio.

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] D-Star Repeater Question

2010-03-11 Thread Nate Duehr
on the fringe (data header information is NOT error corrected, voice packets are), or if you have something programmed incorrectly that the rig is changing after you key up... etc. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Random Thoughts on an Open D-STAR Architecture [Was: Home Rptr is MIA, What do I do???]

2010-03-10 Thread Nate Duehr
On 3/10/2010 1:04 PM, kb9khm wrote: This is where I think the Icom implementation added an unnecessary feature. D-STAR protocol has its own useable address space in the callsign fields of the header. In DV mode there is no reason to assign a callsign an IP address (nor in DD mode either,

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Home Rptr is MIA, What do I do???

2010-03-09 Thread Nate Duehr
for the code. But it does not require publication of your code changes. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Home repeater no longer exists on the network, what to do?

2010-03-01 Thread Nate Duehr
On 2/28/2010 12:47 PM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: You are correct, and that's what I was referring to . If you stay on a single repeater, call sign forwarding should be immediate, since the local software arbitrates the session. Actually, that should read single gateway. You can bounce between

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Home repeater no longer exists on the network, what to d

2010-02-27 Thread Nate Duehr
On 2/26/2010 9:59 PM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: Hmmm, sounds like a number of people are unimpressed with your perception that D-STAR isn't a big deal. Ahh there you go making up things I didn't say again, Ed. Actually making up stuff THEY didn't say either. Three people having two ID-1's

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Home repeater no longer exists on the network, what to do?

2010-02-26 Thread Nate Duehr
On 2/26/2010 12:21 PM, Gary wrote: I'm not sure this is the forum for this, but shouldn't user registration data be a bit more redundantly accessible? Would love to see Icom just drop the whole requirement for registration altogether in version 4 of their Gateway software if they ever

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Home repeater no longer exists on the network, what to do?

2010-02-26 Thread Nate Duehr
On 2/26/2010 2:29 PM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: About the only reason why you have to have multiple terminals is if you are running multiple ID-1s. Let us know if you ever find anyone who personally owns multiple ID-1's. LOL! Just sayin'... Nate WY0X

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] D Rats on a Mac

2010-02-17 Thread Nate Duehr
... and include me also, please? 73 de Dennis KD7CAC Scottsdale, AZ On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:14 AM, beamar wrote: Could someone who is successfully using D Rats on a Macintosh please e mail me. Buddy Morgan WB4OMG bea...@aol.com mailto:beamar%40aol.com Are you guys familiar with the

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: CONNECTING TO RELECTORorREPEATERS

2010-02-14 Thread Nate Duehr
back to it, if you have your programming done correctly.) But okay - nothing is perfect. Let's have fun even so. :-) Yup! -- Nate Duehr n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] 2200H vs 880

2010-02-14 Thread Nate Duehr
is a good one too, if you're on a budget. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Automatic Operation - Control Point Definition

2010-02-09 Thread Nate Duehr
On 2/9/2010 11:24 AM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: With the popularity of hotspots, cross-band repeaters and other devices, I got to thinking about the legal classification of these devices and what it means to their operation. I don't really want to start a 400 message discussion, but to allow each

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Automatic Operation - Control Point Definition

2010-02-09 Thread Nate Duehr
On 2/9/2010 11:42 AM, Adrian wrote: We've already had one ruling by the FCC about D-STAR repeaters and that didn't go the way that many organizations had hoped. Let's not force another ruling. Ed WA4YIH Hi Ed, What was that ruling, for those of us unaware please? Adrian, He's

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DPRS

2010-02-03 Thread Nate Duehr
aprs.fi myself. Better map than most... -- Nate Duehr n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: New guy

2010-01-22 Thread Nate Duehr
On 1/21/2010 6:53 PM, JI1BQW wrote: A limited number of repeaters? Compared to the US, maybe. There are 57 D-STAR repeaters in the area a bit smaller than the state of California. It maybe true that we don't mobile much and move between repeaters. Wow! Nice coverage! Nate WY0X

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: New guy

2010-01-22 Thread Nate Duehr
On 1/22/2010 4:03 PM, Neil wrote: Wouldn't it be nice if say, a group of people around the country (or world even), could put a special call in the UR field and everyone in that group would have their traffic automatically routed to all the other members, bit like a multicast I suppose, but

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: New guy

2010-01-21 Thread Nate Duehr
On 1/21/2010 10:34 AM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: Actually the way that routi ng is done in D-STAR is much better than the routing done in the basic AX.25 protocol. In AX.25, you had to specify each node along a path. The additional protocol stacks like KA-Node and others act a little more like

Long messages (Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Purchasing a Node Adapter)

2010-01-20 Thread Nate Duehr
. Neither do Android or many other modern devices. Sorry your Blackberry's not up to speed. ;-) ;-) ;-) -- Nate Duehr n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] TX messages for ID-800H

2010-01-20 Thread Nate Duehr
You forgot to note, they're pre-stored messages that go out on each transmission and show on the SCREEN of the far-end receiving radio. They give you a few so you can change the message easily without having to reprogram it, so you can have multiple default messages. Nate WY0X On Jan 19,

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Customers

2010-01-20 Thread Nate Duehr
. The touchy feely niceness of the words, isn't worth the headache they can cause you in court later on. Don't do it. -- Nate Duehr n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Still the new guy!

2010-01-20 Thread Nate Duehr
On 1/20/2010 3:13 PM, Earl Needham wrote: Are all the D Star repeaters open? You'd have to ask every repeater owner. :-P Are all analog systems open? How do you know? The ARRL Repeater Directory? How do they know? They ask the local frequency coordinators to ask the owners. :-) Not

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: New guy

2010-01-20 Thread Nate Duehr
On 1/20/2010 4:16 PM, Catrina White wrote: OOPS!! forgot to ask one more thing.. Why when you imput someone's call sign in the Ur call sign do you need to put 3 empty spaces? what happens if you dont imput that? does that mean it wont work? No. You only need spaces if there's a character in

Re: OT:Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: New guy: Non RF Guys

2010-01-20 Thread Nate Duehr
On 1/20/2010 5:10 PM, ki4umx wrote: I went to the D-Star calculator. plugged in Connie's Call (KB0ZSG) and it gave me: Programming for talking to KB0ZSG YOUR:: KB0ZSG** RPT1: KR4AIK*C RPT2: KR4AIK*G * represents a space Please note Hank... Unless something has changed in her local area,

Re: OT:Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: New guy: Non RF Guys

2010-01-20 Thread Nate Duehr
their perrogative, but it takes away frustration at learning and replaces it with uninformed users... I don't personally like that trade-off, but I do understand the sentiment Let's just make this easy for everyone. It's their call. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com http://facebook.com

Re: OT:Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: New guy: Non RF Guys

2010-01-20 Thread Nate Duehr
have is their callsign... assuming they have also learned how to hit the RS-CS button and reply... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com http://facebook.com/denverpilot http://twitter.com/denverpilot Please TRIM your replies or set your email program

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: New guy

2010-01-19 Thread Nate Duehr
On 1/18/2010 2:08 AM, J. Moen wrote: Imagine a USB Dongle with a 10 milliwatt FM transceiver built into it. It plugs into your PC that runs dongle software to allow connection into the D-Star network of repeaters and reflectors. D-Star radios, most likely HTs, that are nearby, can use this

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: New guy

2010-01-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Inline comments and questions for you Ed. On 1/19/2010 11:37 AM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: We tried to have the stack in Icom's cabinet up and working (what sells radios better than hams with their own radios showing off the technology?!) for the ARRL Rocky Mtn Region Convention the last time it

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: GPS on 880

2010-01-07 Thread Nate Duehr
aprs.fi 's mapping functionality, for another good place to watch your DPRS/APRS data. Still seems like many people aren't aware of it. Way better looking map than just about anything other than sucking the data into Google Earth itself. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com http://facebook.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] State of the DSTAR Union

2010-01-06 Thread Nate Duehr
Posted this to another list. A smart comedian who helps keep it all in perspective... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOtEQB-9tvk :-) Happy New Year, all... D-STAR is fine... carry on. Nate WY0X On Jan 6, 2010, at 7:13 AM, bosshardss wrote: I wonder if we just look at DSTAR without

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Dec 2009 QST p 50 - SSB vs. AM

2009-12-20 Thread Nate Duehr
. QST began running regular articles about it in '49. Hams were about 17 years behind the times back then, and continue that tradition, eh Gary? ;-) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] N7ARR clock

2009-12-14 Thread Nate Duehr
might not be on the mailing list) so he could look at his system, and before I'd heard back I then saw the announcement that the Admin timesync push was being done. Kent, check the archives of the list for more info on the timeline of how it all happened. Thanks all, -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Gateway was down / Now back up

2009-12-14 Thread Nate Duehr
! :-) Thanks for going up there. 73, -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com CC: DSTAR_DIGITAL list in case folks were trying to call Denver D-STAR friends/associates. BCC: John and Mike

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] 2 meters and desense

2009-11-27 Thread Nate Duehr
-linear style cheap Amateur grade vertical antenna at high repeater sites... again, need more info about Height Above Average Terrain, etc... to be able to speak to that. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Beeps

2009-10-17 Thread Nate Duehr
of the protocol, as implemented... and compared to others attempting similar end-results. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com Please TRIM your replies or set your email program not to include the original message in reply unless needed for clarity

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Beeps

2009-10-16 Thread Nate Duehr
telecom protocol best practices. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:23 +, Jonathan Naylor naylo...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Nate You're wrong about the callsigns in the header not having FEC, they are. In fact they're probably better protected than the AMBE data if you equate

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] callsign routing

2009-10-16 Thread Nate Duehr
be easy. Plenty of other ways even if not done with BIND. Getting the politics done to get Icom to change it? I have no dog in that fight. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:40 -0400, Fran Miele f...@miele-family.com wrote: I frequently talk with my son in Dallas

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Beeps

2009-10-16 Thread Nate Duehr
to a number of people. Send the command, then switch back to CQCQCQ and get Not currently linked after transmission #2. This means D-Plus thought you sent the original command over again, and didn't see CQCQCQ. Sadly, this is HIGHLY confusing for users.) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Beeps

2009-10-16 Thread Nate Duehr
it. It is. Very brittle. There are plenty of protocols that do work in heinous amounts of physical layer noise... D-STAR's not one of them. That's not a bad/good judgment against D-STAR, it just is... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:32 +, Jonathan Naylor naylo...@yahoo.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Beeps

2009-10-14 Thread Nate Duehr
This is correct from my experience, and it makes sense from a systems design standpoint, also. Read on. Starting with an additional data point/example, if you remove the RPT2 route to the Gateway from your radio, you won't receive a confirmation transmission from the Gateway, and thus...

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: DV Dongle/Operating Systems

2009-10-12 Thread Nate Duehr
Anyone tried it with Snow Leopard running in 64-bit mode natively? (Hold down 6+4 during boot on supported hardware, which is only the latest machines with the correct processors...) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:42 +, ** N8NOE ** n8...@arrl.net wrote

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Newbie

2009-10-07 Thread Nate Duehr
to make deals in the past. Can't speak for them, though. Give Icom America a ring on the phone. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Newbie

2009-10-05 Thread Nate Duehr
in the grand scheme of tech support... but some people get all whiny about it. Don't expect to fire up a GW in a few hours and have it 100% working... it'll take a little bit of time. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Finally, an Open G2 that runs on ICOM repeater-controller hardware.

2009-10-04 Thread Nate Duehr
: The D_STAR_Open_Source group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/D_STAR_Open_Source/ 73 --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, Nate Duehr n...@... wrote: Open is such a badly misused term these days. Where's the source code available from, and who controls it, under what license? Nate

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Finally, an Open G2 that runs on ICOM repeater-controller hardware.

2009-10-04 Thread Nate Duehr
software(dextra_reflect), all of that at http://dstardextra.sourceforge.net/ under GPL, while other groups keep giving you the BINARY stuff to run. 73 The D_STAR_Open_Source group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/D_STAR_Open_Source/ Nate Duehr n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Finally, an Open G2 that runs on ICOM repeater-controller hardware.

2009-10-03 Thread Nate Duehr
, 70cm and 1.2 GHz bands are handled. Modules C, B and A. We'd like to thank the D STAR Gateway/repeater owners that participated in the tests. Thanks a million. 73 The D_STAR_Open_Source group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/D_STAR_Open_Source Nate Duehr n...@natetech.com facebook.com

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] methinks this graph is broken...

2009-09-28 Thread Nate Duehr
http://dstarusers.org/rdsu.html -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR PARACHUTE MOBILE retry, Sat Sept 19 2009 late afternnon

2009-09-18 Thread Nate Duehr
favorite quote from the guys on the Uncontrolled Airspace Podcast can be modified a bit for you: Remember, time spent flying [or skydiving] is not subtracted from your lifespan. Go fly! :-) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:24 +, boeing377 boeing...@gmail.com

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