You are not automatically repeated. A 2-meter beam is probably your best option.
On Apr 6, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Edward Raybould wrote: > I hope that this is an easy question to answer. I've looked but > haven't found the answer yet. > > When I'm on my local D-Star repeater, W8DIG in Columbus, Ohio, I set > RPT1 to W8DIG^^C and RPT2 to W8DIG^^G. When I key up, am I also > coming out on the A and B ports, or do those ports have to be > explicitly chosen in RPT2? > > The reason that I ask is that I live on the wrong side of town to > reliably hit the repeater with a vertical antenna. I would like to > get a small UHF beam to point towards the repeater. There's a Sunday > evening net on port C, and I would be coming in port B, but I would > like to keep RPT2 set to the gateway for the dongle users. I know > that I can set RPT1 to the B port and RPT2 to the C port, but that > leaves out the dongle users. I will look at a 2-meter beam if using > the gateway doesn't also cross-band me to all ports (which if I had > to guess would be correct). > > 73, > Ned Raybould > N8OIF > John Hays Amateur Radio: K7VE j...@hays.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
