Re: [dstar_digital] Re: FCC Denies Petition to Utilize 2m Sub-Band for Digital Repeater Operation

2008-05-08 Thread Nate Duehr
Robert wrote: One thing analog systems really need to do, which in this day and age there is no excuse not to, is use CTCSS or DCS on the receiver. This type of thing is the reason that Analog FM coordinations in our area REQUIRE that the system have a working CTCSS decoder. It doesn't have

Re: [dstar_digital] Zappppp !!!!

2008-05-09 Thread Nate Duehr
a cheap $3 MOV, too. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: LINKING 2 (OR MORE) D-STAR SYSTEMS TO MAKE A ZONE

2008-05-12 Thread Nate Duehr
Manos Darkadakis wrote: Hello Mark and thanks for the info. I know of such links, as a matter of fact we are going to use one in 5 GHz to have internet available at the D-Star site on top of a 3500 ft mountain here in Athens. The other end will be at our headquarters where the computer

[dstar_digital] D-RATS testing and other interesting things

2008-05-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Hi folks, Did some interesting testing here tonight... we were playing around with using D-RATS *through* the Icom repeaters. (As opposed to the new D-RATS IP Repeater.) It was very hit-and-miss. IC-91AD to IC-92AD was almost flawless once we messed around with timers between W0CBI and

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Thinking about jumping into dstar lots of questions

2008-05-19 Thread Nate Duehr
k7ve wrote: This is kind of a moving target. From your radio, you currently do not. The linking is not like analog, IRLP or Echolink. A transmitting station can address their transmission to a remote repeater or to a specific station through the gateway, stations on the other end have to

Re: [dstar_digital] Thinking about jumping into dstar lots of questions

2008-05-19 Thread Nate Duehr
I'll answer what I think I can Ken, and chop the rest... others can reply to your original message. ken cleaver wrote: Does it seem like there is significant growth in dstar? Are there other manufacturers adopting? [ED - http://www.dstarusers.org/dsm_growth.html

[dstar_digital] Re: D-RATS testing and other interesting things

2008-05-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Dan Smith wrote: Did some interesting testing here tonight... we were playing around with using D-RATS *through* the Icom repeaters. (As opposed to the new D-RATS IP Repeater.) FYI, I don't have a repeater locally, so I can't test it this way yet. A that would explain it. Where

[dstar_digital] Re: D-RATS testing and other interesting things

2008-05-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Dan Smith wrote: Actually, neither the windows control or the one in D-RATS lets you toggle it either way. I override the Windows setting when I open the serial port. I also always imply flow control in recent versions. It gives me a blocking read/write function that works on all platforms

[dstar_digital] Re: D-RATS testing and other interesting things

2008-05-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Adrian wrote: See my post on Linux_Dstar Nate? cheers Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not using the vk6tux these days) Wow, that needed a trim really bad. Adrian, I saw where you asked me if I had tried D-RATS on Linux yet. Is that what you mean? No, I haven't tried it yet, but I will

Re: [dstar_digital] ID-800H Beeps

2008-05-23 Thread Nate Duehr
these low-speed data file- transfer tests sounds like I invested in a sonar company. Ping-ping, Ping-ping, Ping-ping... Heh.) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Several D-Star questions (re: our current stack and antennas)

2008-05-26 Thread Nate Duehr
about a 17dB slide where analog sounds worse and worse, and digital is just fine. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: AH-108 UR2 CANCELLER

2008-05-30 Thread Nate Duehr
Manos Darkadakis wrote: Hello Nate, aftertwo e-mails nothing is coming from tx/rx!!! Is it perhaps because I am far? just a guess 73 Manos SV1IW Wow, no idea. I'd give them a phone call, although I know that's probably not cheap to do from there. There's always the possibility that their

Re: [dstar_digital] D-STAR Forums at Dayton 08 - DVD is Ready!

2008-06-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Gary Pearce KN4AQ wrote: D-STAR Forums at Dayton 2008 DVD Now Ready Wow, you're quick Gary. I was thinking about ordering the D-STAR User Seminar DVD for doing a presentation (or ten) here locally at some meetings. It says it covers the Dongle, but does it cover Reflectors? I'm guessing

Re: [dstar_digital] D-STAR Forums at Dayton 08 - DVD is Ready!

2008-06-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Gary Pearce KN4AQ wrote: Thanks for the head's up, Nate. It's fixed. I had notification going to my @arrl.net address, and when I put the new DVDs in the soup, I used my @arvideonews.com address for that product only. PayPal didn't like the confusion. I figured it was something like that!

Re: [dstar_digital] Suggestion/idea

2008-06-04 Thread Nate Duehr
Randy wrote: The complaints have been that the same one or two people are constantly rag chewing at literally all hours of the day and night and go on forever. I know these are open to the ham community and anyone has a perfect right to use them. I personally have had no problem with it;

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Suggestion/idea

2008-06-05 Thread Nate Duehr
of the site... and had an ID-1... GRIN) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Suggestion/idea

2008-06-05 Thread Nate Duehr
wd8knl wrote: Any user can drop an active link. The call sign does not have to be an 'administrator' as far as dplus is concerned. Try it. Eric WD8KNL It shouldn't work unless your admin has changed this section of the dplus.conf file to read like this: [adminusers] # admin

Re: [dstar_digital] RE: Suggestion/idea

2008-06-05 Thread Nate Duehr
WR9A wrote: I wouldn't doubt that at least *some* of those complaining about the high use of the system connected to the reflector would prefer to have a nice, quiet radio to listen to until someone called them. With D-STAR, we have that capability built into the system already; it's

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: K7RST Stream running?

2008-06-08 Thread Nate Duehr
-Dongle on REF005A and heard both here locally, no problem. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[dstar_digital] thinking through the protocol...

2008-06-08 Thread Nate Duehr
area is impossible. So... RPT1 is fairly useless except in fringe/overlap areas on co- channeled D-STAR repeaters, and even then won't help much. A user in the overlap coverage area will cause problems. Just the strange things one thinks about while running errands on a Sunday... -- Nate

Re: [dstar_digital] thinking through the protocol...

2008-06-08 Thread Nate Duehr
it a few decades. (GRIN) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Audio Streams for D-Star?

2008-06-09 Thread Nate Duehr
Simon Templar wrote: Are there any audio streams to listen to D-Star repeaters? This would be a good way to attract Amateurs that do not yet have D-Star radios. -- The views I present are that of my own and NOT of any organisation I may belong to. 73 de Simon, VK3XEM.

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Amplifiers for DStar repeater use

2008-06-14 Thread Nate Duehr
out of the duplexer) 100%, including data/callsigns, perfectly. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] D-STAR Calculator Update (and bug fix)

2008-06-18 Thread Nate Duehr
Woodrick, Ed wrote: Version 1.4.3.2 of the D-STAR Calculatorhttp://www.dstarinfo.com/Calculator/ http://www.dstarinfo.com/Calculator/ has been published. By only comment would be that there are currently 192 Gateways showing up in the Gateway Info page of the Gateways, and far less than

Re: [dstar_digital] First few key-ups garbled on Dstar Repeater

2008-06-18 Thread Nate Duehr
garyp609 wrote: I did more testing today and switched out the power supply for the repeater to an Astron SS-25M. I also cleaned the N-Connector pins and checked for loose cables. The receive is better today but consistently after the repeater sits for 5 - 8 minutes dormant and is keyed up the

Re: [dstar_digital] Interfacing Dstar Controller to an Analog Repeater

2008-06-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Ron Wright wrote: ICOM locked their products to work together. The ICOM D-Star controller does not put out typical controller logic and audio. It talks to its repeaters with a CAT5 cable in a digital control format...serial data. This data is broken down in the repeaters radios and used

Re: {Disarmed} RE: {Disarmed} Re: {Disarmed} [dstar_digital] First few key-ups garbled on Dstar Repeater

2008-06-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Ron Wright wrote: My concern is the attack/recovery times with digital. With a mobile swishing in/out in analog the recovery is very quick, instantly, but with digital it has to do its verification thing and takes time. This is what larger buffers and fast DSP processing is for in the

Re: [dstar_digital] D-Star scramble code

2008-06-24 Thread Nate Duehr
These types of scramble codes are common in telecom for doing things like ones density. I wouldn't even call them scrambled, that seems to be a term that picked up somewhere in D-STAR. Telecom engineers would simply call this line coding of different sorts. Study all of these, and you'll

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Limited access

2008-06-27 Thread Nate Duehr
at hand. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Inside Chassis coax - lossy

2008-06-27 Thread Nate Duehr
Charles Scott wrote: Not exactly the kind of comments I'd expect from you. I didn't notice which band it was for this unit, but from 440 up the little mobile duplexers can be pretty small and work well for low-power applications. Also, why are you worried about shielding? I believe the radios

Building redundant D-STAR Systems (was: Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Limited access)

2008-06-27 Thread Nate Duehr
Bob McCormick W1QA wrote: In what I've drawn up so far - one of the weakest points in our whole configuration is the D-STAR repeater controller itself! Its easy to configure redundancy in that last mile network connection ... and setup a reliable gateway including maybe even a backup system.

Re: {Disarmed} Re: RE: Re: [dstar_digital] Re: D-STAR Field Day Update

2008-06-29 Thread Nate Duehr
to be misbehaving. The owner may or my not have time to debug, but a replacement with another known-good supply was in order. Sorry if we missed FD fun on D-STAR from Colorado... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] 400 kHz Offset

2008-06-30 Thread Nate Duehr
Ernest Kapphahn wrote: Proposing any plan that requires existing systems to move, is not going to meet with a good reception. (rim-shot.) Pun intended? Good reception? I like that one Ernie. Nate WY0X

Re: [dstar_digital] http://www.dstarusers.org/lastheardG2.php

2008-07-07 Thread Nate Duehr
g7akm wrote: Does any one know what has happened to this web site. http://www.dstarusers.org/lastheardG2.php? http://www.dstarusers.org/lastheardG2.php? DAVE. [ED Dstarusers.org had a major system failure over the weekend. See if the information you need is available just by going to

Re: [dstar_digital] G2 Software arrived

2008-07-08 Thread Nate Duehr
Manos Darkadakis wrote: Hello all I have finally received and installed G2 software. A few things I miss like, what is the trust server ip, how can I register our SZ1SV gateway there? Then we hope that we will be able to join the rest of the world from here at SZ1SV. Thanks in advance

Re: [dstar_digital] D-STAR and blind hams

2008-07-12 Thread Nate Duehr
here locally, perhaps you and Dave and other folks talking on this thread will have come to some consensus on how best to get a complete newcomer who's blind, started operating on D- STAR. (Sounds like a great article for publication somewhere, doesn't it?) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] D-STAR and blind hams

2008-07-12 Thread Nate Duehr
-key.) Don't worry, even all us sighted folks get -- beyond that -- is a very twitchy RF S-meter on an ultra-hot receiver prone to inter-mod and IF mixes, and that information doesn't really mean a whole lot in a digital system. :-) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] 91AD vs 92AD handhelds

2008-07-15 Thread Nate Duehr
. Not to mention a whole laundry list of other problems. The big pine tree -- who's needles are excellent attenuators at 1.2 GHz) being in the way, isn't helping either.) You gotta love microwave bands... eh? -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Factory programmed memories in IC-91AD?

2008-07-21 Thread Nate Duehr
Ron Wright wrote: However, one would think this reset would not be on page 118 of the manual, but a seperate card to get ones attention if this should be done from the start. Heck, what is this, Windows? Reboot early, reboot often? LOL. Never done a reset, don't plan on doing a reset,

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-22 Thread Nate Duehr
Dan Smith wrote: I have loaded the SW ok, but can't get it to talk to my 2820 or 91AD, For the 91, make sure the radio is on band B, in vfo mode, and the mode is set to DV instead of FM or something. Dan, since the 91 has the ability to be remote controlled to some extent (but not

Re: [dstar_digital] CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-25 Thread Nate Duehr
John D. Hays wrote: There is a PERL based 91AD programmer at http://dstarutah.org http://dstarutah.org in the files section. It may help you figure out some additional parameters. The comments in the Perl are great, by the way... full descriptions of the binary/hex that's going in/out.

Re: [dstar_digital] CHIRP: An open-source programming tool for ICOM radios

2008-07-26 Thread Nate Duehr
Greg, If you typed anything in reply, it didn't show up... just blank. On Jul 25, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Greg Forrest wrote: -Original Message- From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nate Duehr Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 16:05 To: dstar_digital

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: reflector guideline ??

2008-07-29 Thread Nate Duehr
Fran Miele wrote: Rethinking my previous comment about link/unlink, maybe we have ours setup to disallow the average user. We don't want everyone linking and unlinking. We went the opposite route. Unless someone gets abusive of it, everyone's allowed. We couldn't think up a scenario where

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Japan Contact (corrected)

2008-07-29 Thread Nate Duehr
Fran Miele wrote: This is NOT good!! If we can't reply and they forget to FLUSH as you call it, we can't stop of their conversation on our system. Maybe the communication between them and us should not be allowed until the issues are resolved so we can get back to them easily. This was a big

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: reflector guideline ??

2008-07-31 Thread Nate Duehr
Ferrell Brown wrote: Excellent point Alan. We have not had any problems yet but it is possible. Not sure if the dstar equip is heavy duty enough to handle constant use. Sound bite from Nate: If the Icom modules can't handle 100% duty-cycle at full rated power, they're not repeaters. With

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: JFINDU ??

2008-08-13 Thread Nate Duehr
Peter Loveall wrote: Is there a way, using a parameter, to tell jfindu to show only those heard in the last X days? As an example, show only those heard in the last 3 days. No. It pulls all records of last heard on the repeater or repeater group. When a station goes to a different

Re: [dstar_digital] how are you routing?

2008-08-16 Thread Nate Duehr
Ray T. Mahorney wrote: A reminder and a request folks; some of you are going to see this more than once and for that I apologize. Recently a couple of you folks have tried to call me but you haven't told me where you are routing from so I cant respond. You can hit your one-touch

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Newbie Question

2008-08-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Bob McCormick W1QA wrote: What the IC-2820 does not do is receive TWO D-STAR (digital) transmissions at the same time. Two ID-800H's stacked will. And it'll only cost you $100 more than the 2820. :-) (I'm kinda joking, kinda serious.) You also of course lose the GPS capabilities and the

Re: [dstar_digital] how are you routing?

2008-08-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Steve S. Bosshard (NU5D) wrote: I was not aware of that change - last note I saw on the admin page when queried was the reason for the patch not being disclosed - maybe again I didn't turn the page. Thanks, Steve I think it was either in the README or somewhere else in the update notes

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: how are you routing?

2008-08-19 Thread Nate Duehr
john_ke5c wrote: The dsgwd software changes • If a terminal moved into another repeater area of the same zone, the software overwrites the headers in incoming packets to redirect the data to the correct area repeater even though the updated user data are not yet shared in the entire

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: how are you routing?

2008-08-20 Thread Nate Duehr
john_ke5c wrote: However, if you originate a call to some who is not really homed to the gateway your local sync_mng says, you will not be correctly routed until your local sync_mng is updated by the trust server. So I guess okay if you move, but not okay if whom you call moves. Right?

Re: [dstar_digital] Help with poor audio on Dstar System?

2008-08-24 Thread Nate Duehr
Completely normal. 10 Mb/s Half-Duplex devices like the Controller don't know HOW to autonegotiate. (Why they made the controller half- duplex, is beyond me. Another in a long list of basic IP/network engineering mistakes from Icom.) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] FW: RT Systems' WCS-2820 Programmer Release

2008-08-27 Thread Nate Duehr
/Screenshot-memedit.png Yes Dan, like yours... if you can write that, the professionals at RT Systems certainly should be able to write one. -- Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] How do I join in a discussion on another repeater ?

2008-08-27 Thread Nate Duehr
callsign routing will make it so the Dongle users will be heard out both Gateways, unfortunately... only DPlus can offer options for that, either by system-to-system linking or a Reflector. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] D-STAR Logo

2008-08-31 Thread Nate Duehr
club logo. I'm still waiting for someone to ask me when I have my Colorado D-STAR shirt on why I'm a Dallas Hockey fan... http://shop.nhl.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2652910 -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] D-RATS Problem

2008-09-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Eric Gildersleeve wrote: Has anyone sucessfuly managed to do a file transfer with D-RATS? Yes. Simplex. What version were you using? A much older one. Also, were you operating through a repeater? When we had some folks doing some testing we ran into timing problems. In talking to

Re: [dstar_digital] First D-Star repeater in Azores Islands

2008-09-04 Thread Nate Duehr
João Gonçalves Costa wrote: The Ham Radio community and the Portuguese colleagues in particular are cheerful in recognition for a brand new D-Star repeater CQ0DAH B, in Terceira Island / Azores permanently installed. Congratulations! Shift: -7,6 MHz. Was the odd shift done to be able to

Re: [dstar_digital] Ideas for Making D-STAR Measurements?

2008-09-09 Thread Nate Duehr
Bob Witte K0NR wrote: I am looking at a problem with a D-STAR repeater, wanting to test the receiver sensitivity and overall system sensitivity. It seems that my FM test equipment doesn't quite do the job :-( That is, I could really use a sig gen that puts out a d-star signal. I am looking

Re: [dstar_digital] how many UR calls for the 800?

2008-09-12 Thread Nate Duehr
need to go to a different port on that remote repeater in a hurry. Hope that tip helps someone... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Repeater Linking (Help me see my errors please!)

2008-09-14 Thread Nate Duehr
for any kind of Reflector activity... there *could* still be some out there who don't have it, and/or don't want it. (But since dplus is also required for Dongle users, I hope not.) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] D-Star down time during

2008-09-26 Thread Nate Duehr
Nevada Amateur Radio Repeaters, Inc. wrote: Some people like to say that the VoIP should not be relied upon because the internet could go down. What has been the real experience during storms for internet failure? Kent W7AOR It stays up in pockets. Those pockets are caused by differences

Re: [dstar_digital] Re:D-Star down time during

2008-09-26 Thread Nate Duehr
Christopher Burke wrote: Interesting story: After Ike my friend Joe N9IFG was listening to a net on IRLP from his node. He has to key up every 15 minutes to keep the connection active, so he gave out an N9IFG checking in from Chicago, Illinois. Off-topic: He can easily fix that IRLP

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: ID800 data transmission.

2008-09-29 Thread Nate Duehr
echo. Echo from the repeater callsign and E in the eighth character field does work for bouncing both voice and low-speed data back at yourself for test purposes, but only if the above criteria are met.) Just a small overly-detailed correction for Steve's comment... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: ID800 data transmission.

2008-09-29 Thread Nate Duehr
transmit, until I remembered I had programmed GPS ON via the programming software and the OTHER cable. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: ID800 data transmission.

2008-09-29 Thread Nate Duehr
to transmit data in Auto transmit mode.) Nate WY0X On Sep 29, 2008, at 1:11 AM, Nate Duehr wrote: On Sep 28, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Rick wrote: Hi All I got it. Here is what I did. Since I am using a Mac I have a program called Parallels. I rebooted the Mac and restarted Windows. Before I started

[dstar_digital] Colorado Gateway back on-line repeaters up high

2008-10-03 Thread Nate Duehr
information on the group: http://www.coloradodstar.org (We know the website needs updating... hang on! We're too busy playing with D-STAR! GRIN...) 73, Nate Duehr, WY0X W0CDS Gateway Admin General D-STAR Geek -- Having Fun w/ D-STAR!

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: setting DPL on the 800

2008-10-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Ray T. Mahorney wrote: what is the edit field I mentioned it seems to allow entries from 0 to 99 Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA UK call sign M0WGA That sounds like you're in DV mode, not analog. That's the two-digit group or code squelch. (The menu options change when you're in analog vs. DV

Re: [dstar_digital] ID 800

2008-10-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Woodrick, Ed wrote: By putting a radio on frequency and changing the mode to DV, you should always hear everything correctly, no additional programming required. ... As long as you don't have digital squelch type CSQ or DSQ turned on. Nate WY0X

Re: [dstar_digital] ID 800

2008-10-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Jim wrote: Got new ID 800 I think I m getting into repeates When I I try to bring up a repeater I get on the screen UR* and every 1 sounds Like R2D2 what am I doing wrong As someone else mentioned, continuous R2D2 is usually a sign you're not really within the coverage pattern of the

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: D800 Repeater Indication

2008-10-03 Thread Nate Duehr
John wrote: Ok, I have the 92AD and the D800H setup as follows: UR: CQCQCQ RPT1: KD0CGR C RPT2: KD0CGR G When I TX on the 92AD the readback data appears to be fine but on the D800H I get the RPT* Completely normal. The ID-800H doesn't display the repeater callsign, but it does

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: setting DPL on the 800

2008-10-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Ray T. Mahorney wrote: you say the could find it by watching the radio what do they see? Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA UK call sign M0WGA You know... I want to double check that. But I'm pretty sure you can go into the RX menu on the IC-91AD and see what code is being sent in real-time. On other

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Ideas for Making D-STAR Measurements?

2008-10-06 Thread Nate Duehr
nj902 wrote: One suggestion regarding the voice messages used for these tests - for consistent results it would be optimum for everyone to use the ones that DVSI has developed for testing and verifying the operation of the IMBE and AMBE VOCODERs. The words and phrases are apparently optimized

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: ID 800

2008-10-06 Thread Nate Duehr
Jim wrote: Thank You I tried entering that and I am now getting into the repeater display says RPT* but now tring to talk to frien on another repater haveing problems there I can hear him but not getting back to him Is the other repeater dplus linked, or is he callsign routing to you? How

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: WH6DIG Echolink

2008-10-06 Thread Nate Duehr
gm0ops wrote: GB7MI (5 October 2008) With all the software and hardware test now complete GB7MI will run echolink on digital from Sunday 12 October 2008. Other echolink repeaters, nodes and computer users will be able to connect to GB7MI and hold a qso with digital/dstar, RF users, without

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: assistance with DD mode

2008-10-06 Thread Nate Duehr
Steve Bosshard wrote: This works: http://cobalt.n5zpr.com/dstar2.html http://cobalt.n5zpr.com/dstar2.html 73, Steve Well... hmm. Talking with the user trying it, he was set up as per the with Gateway document at the above link. (Using W0CDS as the base callsign, of course.) We logged

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: ID 800

2008-10-09 Thread Nate Duehr
Jim wrote: he told me what repeater he was on is that what u meen Well, in D-STAR it's more helpful if you announce not only what repeater you're coming from but also make sure your friend you're calling knows HOW you're calling... Callsign routing (one transmission at a time) or Dplus

Re: [dstar_digital] repeater programming issue,, can hear linked stations, but can't talk back

2008-10-09 Thread Nate Duehr
j wrote: Our repeater is having an issue where we can hear folks when they tie into our repeater (from a different repeater), but we respond and they don't hear us. Do I need to program that linked repeater in my radio in order to have two way comms or do we have a programming issue?

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Article in Popular Communications

2008-10-20 Thread Nate Duehr
Steve wrote: I agree it's one of the more innovative things to come to ham radio in a while. But really overall I am disappointed because there really isn't much to it beyond pressing the PTT to enable hams to further the innovation. It's a digital appliance. The innovation is in software,

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Article in Popular Communications

2008-10-20 Thread Nate Duehr
Christopher Burke wrote: I've heard the radios used to be more expensive. D-STAR isn't that bad argument a lot (many times from Mark Thompson - you out there, Mark? :-). But who cares? The fact is right now dual band transceivers are around $300. An ID-800H is $510 right now at Gigaparts.

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: D-PRS Updates -How?

2008-10-22 Thread Nate Duehr
Peter Loveall wrote: No, you do not have to be registered, but you do have to have the gateway in RPT2. (repeater in RPT1, gateway in RPT2, CQCQCQ in URCALL). Try that. A side-note to Pete's message... If you have a local Gateway, there are SO many things that rely on the Gateway these days

Re: [dstar_digital] Hi all Newby question.

2008-10-28 Thread Nate Duehr
eBay removed the item or the seller did, it's not there now. -- Nate Duehr Sent from my iPhone On Oct 28, 2008, at 15:39, davidnesbittjr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I will be taking my test November 1st for a Tech license I ran across this radio on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: radio programming

2008-10-30 Thread Nate Duehr
Steve Bosshard wrote: It is sad that complexity excludes many would be users. Especially since it's not that complex. I don't know if this says something about hams or just the population in general. :-) Jeff, KE9V had a nice podcast he'd done called If we don't understand it, we can just

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: radio programming

2008-10-30 Thread Nate Duehr
Nate Duehr wrote: Jeff, KE9V had a nice podcast he'd done called If we don't understand it, we can just ignore it that seemed to cover the reasons why the general public has lost interest in anything technological that requires more than two seconds of actual thought... Follow-up to my own

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: radio programming

2008-10-30 Thread Nate Duehr
Ferrell Brown wrote: Well lets see. I guess everybody assumes that I am a dumbass and don't understand Dstar because of my original post. Anybody that knows me will tell you that I am very well versed in Dstar and the concept it includes. I have 2 2820's 1 91AD and 1 ID-1. I also got a

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DD Frustrations with my ID-800...

2008-11-21 Thread Nate Duehr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check the squelch control. If you see BUSY the auto send will not work. Turn the squelch clockwise until it goes not show BUSY and you will find that it works fine.. Tom Koch - W4UOC Agreed with Tom, this busy indication and the port speed setting are the most

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: IC-92AD Connector

2008-11-28 Thread Nate Duehr
john_ke5c wrote: Mark, KJ4VO at the HRO Atlanta store and I have been researching this. No one has the proprietary connector, period. I have not been able to locate the custom waterproof connector vendor that Icom uses either. A proprietary implementation of an open protocol

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: IC-92AD Connector

2008-11-30 Thread Nate Duehr
I guess they didn't fit the dimensions on the IC-91AD then, whatever that means. -- Nate Duehr Sent from my iPhone On Nov 28, 2008, at 17:23, Jon M. Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What did you expect ICOM to do with a connector that carries power, audio, GPS data, push-to-talk line

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Programming Problem ?

2008-12-14 Thread Nate Duehr
if you need more help... plenty of folks here who know how this all works. 73, maybe talk to you on W0CDS sometime... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X W0CDS Gateway Admin (The guys on the other end - Colorado! GRIN...)

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Programming Problem ?

2008-12-15 Thread Nate Duehr
Barry A. Wilson wrote: OK Nate, You almost confused me in your below example. so just so others understand. The YOUR: Your call sign in your example should actually be represented by MY: My Call Maybe. My IC-91 calls it that though. They're in the exact order they are put into the

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Voice out on a data only TX

2008-12-22 Thread Nate Duehr
The short answer is: Bit errors affect voice just like they affect data. There's no such thing as a voice only or a data only stream. Every stream is complete with voice and data components. Silence is still a voice stream that must be properly decoded, and if it got damaged on the way to

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Voice out on a data only TX

2008-12-23 Thread Nate Duehr
John D. Hays wrote: The protocol differentiates the DV datastream (AMBE encoded voice, including 1200 bps messaging) from the DD datastream (Ethernet packets encapsulated in D-STAR headers) by flipping a single flag bit. No DV radios allow this flip at the current time, though I think it

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Use

2009-01-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Vicky Bagwalla wrote: I want to make full use of D-Star capabilities for my icoms but am at a dead end. Cant find a single resource for a repeater in Toronto, Ontario (besides VE3YYZ) and no resources that explains how best I can use it. I have been trying to do APRS with the 2820 with no

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Gateway registration?

2009-01-15 Thread Nate Duehr
shaneblaser wrote: It seems all of the repeaters near me only register for club members, but allow public access to the repeaters? Just checking, did you ask them or are you going by web pages, etc. Most understand the plight of the Dongle user, and will happily register you. But then

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] New D-Star Repeater setup

2009-01-16 Thread Nate Duehr
Lot Marquez wrote: A few questions, we are used to analog and we noticed, there is no Pl Tone for the Dstar Repeater, are all Dstar repeater, an open repeater? We had problems with jammers in our analog repeater, is there a way to lessen this in Dstar? Is there a software that we can use to

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] New D-Star Repeater setup

2009-01-16 Thread Nate Duehr
Barry A. Wilson wrote: While on DSTAR you have two options which you can implement. one is DSQL - Digital Call Sign Squelch and the other is CSQL - Digital Code Squelch TSQL - Tone Squelch (CTCSS) and DTCS - Digital Tone Squelch are available on analog modes as before on the D-STAR capable

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Need Help with D-Star Registration

2009-01-19 Thread Nate Duehr
If the original Gateway operator wasn't thinking straight and didn't delete everyone when he decommissioned the server, getting re-registered could be very interesting. Why did they do that? Nate WY0X From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dstar_digi...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Need Help with D-Star Registration

2009-01-20 Thread Nate Duehr
Though other e-mail chains, Trust Server team is looking into how to help the users stranded on the down Gateway. Nate From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dstar_digi...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Evans Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA4TH FL / WQFK-894 Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 8:24

RE: {Disarmed} [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: D-STAR to APRS MSG and visa-versa

2009-01-26 Thread Nate Duehr
D-STAR (the protocol) defines a continuous voice and data stream during ALL transmissions for DV mode. (We'll focus on DV, but DD is high speed wide-area IP/Internet and works far better than non-native IP protocols for interfacing with just about *everything* today.) How you decide to USE

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

2009-01-28 Thread Nate Duehr
So. I was hoping their next mobile rig would be a dual-bander with dual-receive and two D-STAR boards in it and smart enough (like the Kenwood APRS rigs) to tie D-PRS beacons to band A, or band B, as desired and route the rear data port to either band as desired. Looks like they went the other

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

2009-01-28 Thread Nate Duehr
All you have to do is watch the FCC site to see when they apply for FCC approval... lots of new rigs show up there first... Nate WY0X On Jan 28, 2009, at 11:06 PM, Gordon Dick wrote: Hi John: I had a Japanese translator do a little translation for me. Doesn't appear to anything to earth

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