The UK now has a local reflector, REF005, hosted by the UK
Interconnect
Team (UK-IT) in Telehouse, London. This reflector will provide low
latency
connections for UK and European D-Star users.
Since the internet has global coverage, this might more properly be
described as a private UK/EU
What I would ideally like is just a plain-jane receiver with the RS-
232 output that I can mount in the trunk next to the radio. I have
been looking on the Internet and the descriptions do not include
whether they have RS-232 output in the proper format.
I believe these are 5V, not 12V, models
However, when I get no less than 15 emails and 3 phone calls in the
past week complaining, I must act. I cannot imagine other cities
doing what we have been doing are not getting similar complaints.
Reflector etiquette is still evolving. Fortunately folks on 1C are
getting in the habit of
Why don't you try open linking per my post rather than button the
hatches down? What have you got to lose? If it doesn't work, then
you can go back.
73 -- John
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for all of the replies! Unfortunately, with D-Star
is there a complete translation somewhere, including the ethernet part?
The english one you find on that side unfortunately ends at page 13 of
40...
I found this a while back, but it's only one chapter. However, it's
an important chapter:
http://www.aprs-is.net/downloads/DStar/CHAPTER5.doc
One touch on their calls does not work. I could not one touch calls
from Kansai. The area cq = ie; /xxp as we use for general
repeater push, is required.
Perhaps some day the details will be shared, but the usroot database
only has callsigns and public IP's for the JA gateways. The band
My IC91AD has many frequencies programmed in the memories. I think
this is part of the CPU initial setup and used for testing at the
manufacture. It might have been setup by external programming such as
with a PC.
Page 118 of the IC-91AD manual says: Reset the CPU before operating
the
Perhaps it would make sense to start a new Yahoo group to focus on
discussing the issues of D-RATS CHIRP.
I would be more than happy to do that (although not on Yahoo), but
people have expressed disinterest in that in the past. Personally, I
filter mail so heavily that more targeted
We also have our port B connected 24x7 but we
don't let our users link or unlink.
Why?
BTW, ANYONE can unlink.
73 -- John
I don't believe every user can link or unlink. I think they need to
be an
admin. Also, using rtp2=not use only stops them from going out the
gateway.
If someone on another system were to come on the reflector they
wouldn't
know there is a local conversation happening on another connected
if you want to have a talk to japan you can have a QSO with me:
I am currently in Sapporo/Japan und stay near to the JP8YDZ repeater
(http://map.findu.com/jr2zei). I am often QRV in the evenings
between 11 UTC and 15 UTC.
JA gateways appear to be running javAPRSSrvr for D-PRS:
Is there a Google map or a Google Earth overlay for nodes?
In D-Star jargon, those are gateways rather than nodes. Left-click and
hold to pan, use the zoom control top left to change resolution:
http://www.jfindu.net/DSTARRepeaters.aspx
73 -- John
I think it was either in the README or somewhere else in the update
notes Brian NJ6N sent out to all about two weeks ago?
I don't see any reason why what the trust server ops posted on the
admin group should be any big secret. After all, most of us are in
this to learn:
Gateway G2 Ver 2.1
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 network. (Jim's comment this
helps a LOT for those
Also I'm now looking at getting the GPS data out of the 2820 to be
shared by an external device.
Two possibilities. First, although not clear from the manual and you
probably have to have the digital band in GPS rather than DATA mode
and thus might not be able to use the low speed data channel
Our Internet is fine.
As others have said, you know ON THE AVERAGE it is superb, but you
don't know about VOIP/UDP performance (jitter, etc.).
What else are you running on the gateway computer that could steal
CPU cycles and/or add ethernet traffic? (Several folks have wondered
about this.)
I really hope this is the problem. I removed the S of the system.
Lets see now if that was the problem all along.
I just queried dstar_global: 154 systems have S terminals defined.
If this is a problem, many others should experience this issue also.
position(' S' in target_cs) 0 AND
Is your webserver on the same machine as your gateway, or does it just
share the IP address and router?
http://71.40.213.134/ https://71.40.213.134/Dstar.do
73 -- John
MyCall: KD5EOC*E
This is not a valid (registered) call in the gateway database, so you
will not be able to access any gateway using it. You heard them
because they were using valid calls.
73 -- John
Let's use REF004A and REF002A for JOTA next weekend - OKAY? 4A will
be primary and 2A will be overflow. The logic to not use 1A or 1B is
that the whole world is connected to 1C and if you connect your
gateway or dongle to 1A or 1B you will also get the 1C DV stream (you
won't hear it, but it
Be sure you have GPS Mode set to OFF.
73 -- John
I have been using DRats on my ID-800H and it works well. I am trying
to use DRats or DChat with the 92AD using the same cable that I use to
program the 92AD from the laptop. It does not seem to work with DRats
or DChat. Is there another
Thanks for all the responses on this and other groups. The primary
JOTA reflector will be 5C, the first backup/overflow will be 10A, and
the second backup/overflow will be 4A.
M0TMX said about 5C: Having had a word with other members of the UK
Interconnect Team we are happy to offer REF005C
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, nhorv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious, what is a Reflector?
A DStar gateway is a computer program, a computer, and an internet
connection that also connects (digitally) to a DStar repeater
(technically to a DStar controller which connects digitally to
We have recently set up a D-Star repeater. While the repeater is
working
very well, we don't have ready access to the internet at the
repeater site
and are considering various options to get internet service there
including
wireless. My newbie questions are just how much bandwidth is
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 requires a
proprietary
Please consider nominations for this award (technical innovation) from
within the DStar community for this award. Nominations close March
31. Nominate online:
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/edunom.html?aw_id=11
The ARRL Technical Innovation Award is granted annually to the
licensed radio
This is a great resource. Thanks! Yes I registered or at least I
sent off the info to the sysop of
the local repeater that I am using. I did not receive a response
back yet that I am registered
though. I am guessing that he has done that since I worked thru
reflector 001 great.
Hi Steve,
I
If any of you Dallas DStar'ers would like to join in, you could ask
the K5TIT sysops to link one of the band modules between 8 and 9 to
REF004B. We have cron jobs on K5CTX, W5LM, W5HAT, and KE5RCS to do
this automatically each Tuesday night so we don't have to rely on a
sysop remembering. Hope
Why do people change the Subject to the message? This wrecks
threads and
makes following them very difficult because it becomes fragmented.
Most of the time I have seen it done the subject of the thread has
changed. Yahoo has groups have messages, but Yahoo is not suited to
be thread-based
Here is the link
http://www.icom.co.jp/release/20090128/index.html
albeit it's Japanese.
I ran it through babelfish. There are no details on specifications of
interest such as number of memories, how many characters in the display
(eight would be a lot better than six so you could see the
W8RNL allows users to control links. I know that for a fact, but
don't know if you have to be registered to control Dplus.
A dplus.conf option allows the sysop to determine if users have to be
registered to control dplus or not. Almost all sysops set this to
require gateway system
ID-1
Which USB chip is in the ID-1?
ID-800
Are you using the OPC-478U USB programming cable? If so, which USB
chip does it use? I earlier posted about an ebay knockoff of the OPc-
478U which uses a Prolific USB to serial bridge, but I don't know which
chip the Icom cable actually uses
ID-1
The ID-1 uses the FTDI FT8U232AM USB UART so the 64 bit FTDI USB
drivers per an earlier post SHOULD work with the ID-1.
73 -- John
I have the IC2820, ID1 and IC91AD S/W running fine on Vista64; quad
core 9550.  It likely installed as a 32 bit program. So it
works
32 bit applications will run on 64 bit Vista, however, you still need
64-bit drivers if those programs use devices:
http://tinyurl.com/8byqqx
If you
My question, with a notebook computer using Linux would I be able to
configure a wireless device to seek out a WIFI network and provide and
Internet gateway to the system?
You can do this but only if you have control of the access point your linux
wireless client device accesses so that you
Callsign routing also has the excellent additional benefit in that it
will follow anyone anywhere in the network, as long as they've keyed
down ONCE on the local repeater... wherever they may roam. If you
put WY0X into your rig, and I go to California, Hawaii, or even just
switch
Dear Piotr and Andy,
Hi! Thank you for DStar in Poland!
To join DStar trust server net now you must have only ICOM DStar equipment.
DStar Hotspot can not yet join trust server net.
Good luck and very best 73, John
Or someone can from group contact has with persons Trust-Server-Admin ?
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, Nate Duehr n...@... wrote:
I'm surprised no one's asked DStarUsers.org to take that data down,
honestly. Someone who really values their privacy will eventually.
2. People will ask that some web page they have no relationship with
stop publishing when
I agree totally, I opt out of the DGPS because my boss (or anyone) could
track me, if they knew how.
Maybe we should have a D-Star only users list, then only users can see other
users? That way, only we can see our fellow users. (Logged and therefore
traceable.)
Amateur radio is not
There's been some chatter about this, and many of us old-timers have posted
that it shouldn't work but enough folks have posted it does that it makes me
wonder.
I don't remember for sure, but when the JA gateways first appeared in the
database, I'm pretty sure individual JA users did not,
Several options including the MikroTik routers
(http://www.roc-noc.com/home.php?cat=4)
MikroTip is huge overcapacity and overcomplexity for your needs. See
http://www.k5tit.org/forums/index.php?topic=47.15 and there some other threads
I'll get to you later. Ebay is good source for older
I have a WRT52GS (Firmware Version: v4.71.1,
I don't believe Linksys made a WRT52GS. You probably have a WRT54GS.
As for the WRT52GS device: will it allow you to
set the net mask on the trusted side to /8?
That is: 255.0.0.0
A lot of the inexpensive home/consumer firewall
routers
Today, 13:12 -, Steve Bosshard wrote:
Toshi is registered in the GW system showing JP1YIQA as his area
repeater.
Possibly in Japan, but not here:
[...@dstar_gw ~]$ /dstar/tools/dstarripls | grep JF1CXH
[JF1CXH ] [WB4HRO ] [10.220.193.144]
[...@dstar_gw ~]$
-The One-Touch reply works only for those JA stations who are populated
in one of G2 gateways (this is his/her default gateway). Most likely
those JA stations got registered to use DVDongles.
Kay shares a key point - this only works for 20 or so of the J-Landers:
target_cs | arearp_cs |
remote gateway 189.20.214.220:20001 call PY2KCA C status Linked to C
Works for me to link KE5RCS to his gateway (non-existant band module but still
demonstrates all is well). It's either how he has his radio set or his
dplus.conf. Ask him for both of those.
73 -- John
-- In
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, Nate Duehr n...@... wrote:
The gateway admin records it with a DVDongle and can make it audio or
not, and can also set a text message. We don't have one here locally
because without a Dongle, I can't record one for W0CDS. I assume many
systems have
If operator error, what UR= , RPT1, RPT2, MY combination would or could cause
System is currently busy voice message ?
I think that is a generic error message, and MYCALL not in database would if
dplus.conf set the default way to allowreguserlinkingonly.
73 -- John
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, David mbx-sp...@... wrote:
The ID-1 software will not presently run on Vista 64 (to my knowledge)due to
the 64 bit driver not being signed. Does anyone know if it is possible to
control the ID-1 via the Ethernet port. If so, how is that accomplished?
The javAPRSSrvr part of dstarmon is not running. If it were, you would see
process numbers for APRS. See two messages in the Gateway group that just
covered this:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DStar-Gateway/message/2785
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DStar-Gateway/message/2783
73 -- John
All my stuff is sold as complete kits, indeed. No more wild shopping.
Fred, have you published any ordering information?
73 -- John
I don't like the idea of filtering bogus callsigns. What might be
bogus to you, might be my special event's tactical callsigns.
(There's nothing stopping anyone from registering SAG1, SAG1, NET,
EVENT, etc.)
I don't care if this is politically incorrect or insensitive, but if you want
Source routing to an individual callsign (native D-STAR) has its purpose
as well. If the station (callsign) that I want to talk to is attached
to a traveler, say a long haul truck driver or a road warrior, then
simply calling the station using callsign routing makes more sense.
Callsign
But to those of us who truly do wish to communicate with an individual
(as with those of us who are trained on AEDs), it is nice to have the
capability when wanted/needed.
Oh I generally agree. I was just emphasizing how non sequltur the attempted
analogy with debfibrillators on airplanes
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, woody roadma...@... wrote:
I'm new at this programming of this radio..Kinda need some help. Will i
got the local repeaters working just great. but when it comes to getting
thought the gateway and talking to other people seem to be a problem.
Not sure what
The best place to start is with your repeater owner/gateway
administrator. The gateway may not be configured for general Internet
access.
We didn't have to do anything specific to allow general internet browsing via
DD when we set up the gateway. If named is broken on the gateway you
Some administrators may block Internet access. Talking to the
administrator of the local system will provide the local system knowledge.
As an admin, I'm just curious how that could be done, block general internet
browsing via DD but not block DD QSO gateway routing?
73 -- John
As far as I can see or know, Andy's repeater doesn't buffer or 'hold' any
data, it is purely passed directly and almost instantaneously into the TX
from the RX, after the comparator circuit that helps smooth off the 0's and
1's.
Andy then is almost certainly transmitting plain FM, not
http://www.thalesliberty.com/media/briefs/Thales_Multiband_Portable_SDR.pdf
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/43196
Get your loaner: http://www.thalesliberty.com/demo_request.asp
Goodbye DStar Emcomm? Goodbye hams?
73 -- John
Only you can really answer your question, but let me pose a question for
you to think about. What if you deployed to a major incident (like
Katrina) in an area where D-STAR has been deployed heavily for Emergency
Communications, would you want your options for support limited by not
D-STAR works with or without Internet. The Internet enables gateways.
So does FM.
During Katrina there was Internet connectivity available through a
couple of ISP NOCs (even though the building was flooded). If
I can't find any data or verification of that claim; am I searching
scheme? If not, how hard would it be to change? It would seem that Satoshi's
D-Star adapter could be fairly easily modified to work with these radios,
with the control interface using the RS-232 connection.
There's a real mess over in that group with Satoshi having basically abandoning
his
I can't find any data or verification of that claim; am I searching
incorrectly? For all of New Orleans and surrounding parishes?
In New Orleans, two major tech firms have managed to keep up and running
from the upper floors of a skyscraper though supplies of diesel fuel for
their
repeater would, PLUS. The PLUS is the ability to send slow speed data and
voice over the same links, even at the same time. So it actually combines
both the low speed data services (for text, imaging, small file
Other than occasional unidirectional (please don't beacon) GPS reports, DStar
One more question then I will stop! Does anyone know if the RP2D can operate
on its own without the need for a controller?
:(
Manual, page 1:
The ID-RP2D never functions as a repeater without IDRP2C, due to no relay
function is built-in.
73 -- John
Hello from the WU5PIG DStar repeater system where we have a strange issue.
When attempting to link our system to a reflector using a radio we get an
error message, DStar system currently busy.
You will get that message if:
1) RF linking is not allowed
2) Admin only linking and your call
You can talk to another station via the -gateway- as that system fully
buffers each Ethernet packet before determining routing. While this can make
it appear that the RP2D is repeating, it is actually the gateway that is
routing the Ethernet packets back to the same RF channel. Remember
Below is the latest announcement. I am excited as WriteLog is the only
contesting software package that will support the D-STAR Contest as
outlined on the ICOM Japan website.
I don't know if I'll do anything in this contest - I am a contester but this is
not what most of us would consider
Rule: The use of the following technologies cannot be used for contest QSO.
D-PLUS DV Dongle HotSpot Digital/Analog Gateways DV Adapters
A station jumped me on a reflector asking me to one-touch him back for a
contest QSO. Was the reflector (i.e., dplus) used to make the QSO? I would
argue
I am hoping someone else has been down this or a similar road. I have already
checked out the Wine forums. I have an ID1 and I am trying to get the ICOM
ID1 control software under Linux. The gui looks great but I can not
communicate via the Ubuntu 9.04 X64 system.
When I briefly tried to
I stand educated; I didn't know the ID-1 software talked via com port
interfaces rather than via usb port interfaces. What I said is true, wine does
not support usb interfaces, but linux sure does. Thus Pierre, Antonio, Ed, and
maybe others have pointed a way to the solution - the ID-1
Icom DStar contest logs must be submitted by 24:00 August 10, 2009
(Timestamp).
http://www.icom.co.jp/world/d-contest/
73 -- John
Just to be clear, routed calls are not Icom routed calls, they are native
to the D-STAR protocol. The Icom gateway implements them. DPLUS linking is
a non-standard add-on, widely deployed and accepted by the users, but not
native to the protocol.
DE K7VE
More later, but just to be
There are basically three options
There are other options but the one I like the most is that Robin could add
local gateway dplus configuration options to determine how slash routed and
callsign routed streams, both incoming and outgoing from RF and from links, are
handled, i.e., forwarded or
*I,m AI4UE Peter from Burlington.*
*yes my Buddy from Germany DM5LW is blacklisted.*
*So far I know,hw did nothing wrong!*
*He is a 70+ year old Ham,with very good maneers.*
*But there is 160 more hams from Germany blacklisted also.*
*Some of them,never was on Dstar!*
*All off them ask
Interesting. Those folks there were registered on XTRUST below (yesterday)
are now registered on DB0WZB. DTERM, whatever that is, is still registered
on XTRUST1. Someone in D-land seems to be manipulating the database...
73 -- John
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, john_ke5c k
Here is the procedure for the SQL query blocked Germans call sign in the
Gateway database.
su postgres
psql
\c dstar_global
select target_cs, del_flg, mod_date from sync_mng where del_flg = '1' and
target_cs like 'D%' order by target_cs;
No, setting the del_flg means ignore that
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, dh2ybe dh2...@... wrote:
Most of blocked Geman Callsigngs are active OM´s
Why they are blocked ?
NOT blocked.
del_flg = '1' and target_cs like 'D%' order by target_cs;
del_flg NOT for blocking (READ prior postings).
Talk to YOUR gateway admin (or
http://www.icom.co.jp/world/d-contest/results_eng.pdf
Numbers 1 and 2 in the World Repeater category!
73 -- John
I formatted NU5D's log from the recent seven day DStar contest into Cabrillo
format for submission, and I also did some analyses. One of the more
interesting reports is the number of folks worked in each country (again, none
by reflector):
CNTRY QSOs
JAPAN 50
USA.. 26
GERMA 15
ITALY 11
CANAD
If one dongle user communicates with another dongle via a reflector to which
no gateway is linked (no RF), is that a QSO, a VOIP telephone call, or some
type of chat room?
The more I think about it, this may be VAR - virtual amateur radio.
73 -- John
Digital voice on HF will NEVER catch on because it is a strong
signal mode, and HF is the home of weak signals, well except for 80
Never is a long time, and vocoder technology marches on. Already,
the biggest limitation is not technology, but patents and what we
hams can get hold of for
Well, one of the things we lack here is blanket coverage of
repeaters. It only takes a few hours drive from here in the big
smoke to find places devoid of repeater coverage. Traditionally, HF
fills this gap, but then you're isolated from the international
networks and have to rely on
Maybe research the questions and answers more first, I ended up running 3
extra polls for the first one I created on one group.
How/where whould you research the questions and answers more FIRST?
Your views are one of many in a large world, not everyone see's them the same
way.
Of
When a user call sign routes into a repeater does that repeater update the
users table with their current information?
YES (G2). We tested this with zone (slash) routing when G2 first came out,
and it does update the destination gateway with the transmitting user's current
information if he
What I can't believe is that as long as digital protocol have been around,
only one of the major Amateur Radio manufacturers support it. But again, we
have what we have. And we currently have Yaesu, Kenwood, and Alinco who are
just not willing to move into this century!
At least not with
Yes, the RMC type sentence will work if you have set your ID880 to expect it.
Carefully go through your owners manual starting on page 73 to be sure you have
all settings correct. The other issue I have seen is crossed RXD/TXD pins on
one of the connectors...
Stay with it and you will be
In terms of an amateur grade product, the DSTAR radios are OK. Not great but
not all that bad. (Not comparing ham radio to commercial stuff costing 5X
more $).
I was talking about the repeater modules, not the user radios. Sorry if that
was not clear.
73 -- John
GPS message programming
Is this really required to just see coordinates?
I don't think so, you just won't have anything in the comment field.
If I TX to KI4SBA G then my GPS goes out to anyone on reflector 30. Is there
any DPRS - APRS gateways where my XYL or family can look on a web
Yes, dstarmon/javaprssrvr on many gateways, including yours, form a DPRS to
APRS gateway. Set GPS TX mode to DVA, not DVG. Kerchunk, and in a few
minutes look at findu or jfindu:
Oh, and leave the unproto address set to the default of:
API880,DSTAR*
And, of course, do not enable
The idea was that one memory could be set to RPT1=KI4SBA C, RPT2=KI4SBA C and
that would be the beacon. If I wanted to talk I would simply turn the knob
to the next memory that would be RPT1=KI4SBA C, RPT2=KI4SBA G.
The idea to keep the beacon off the gateway.
Read my last post again.
What will it take to get folks here NOT to append hundreds of lines of
previous messages to their replies? I try to keep up with the Yahoo D-Star
groups on my Blackberry but it's impossible because that device limits the
size of an incoming email to something like 45-50KB.
PLEASE,
analog connected to DSTAR!! NO THANK YOU!
I've used a system with a very functional analog interconnect. There's always
some passionate rhetoric when this topic comes up, a lot like node adapters.
Everyone is certainly entitled to an opinion.
73 -- John
There are lots of nets on other networks (like WiRES, EchoLink and
IRLP), but not on D-STAR, you know why. In this sense, it does not
necessarily fit the way we operate.
--
JI1BQW - Kay Ishikawa
Thanks for the information, Kay. Many of us still remain baffled at why JARL
would have left
And yes, Packet radio died because it worked. As packet became popular and
people used it, the traffic went up and eventually people left because now
the network was too congested to do anything.
AX25 reminds me quite a bit of D-Star. AX25 has two modes: connected
(linked) and unconnected
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dstar_digital/surveys?id=2597804
Either way, Todd, looks like you could be the first to set up a D-Star
repeater-gateway in MT! :)
73--John
Scott's idea of the findu.net is more current.
Check out the repeater lists and maps at www.DSTARInfo.com. It includes
those that are gateway connected or not.
I am doing some
Chris Fowler wrote:
Has ICOM extended the spec so that Yaesu can not make a compliant radio?
Yes, the codec is locked down but I don't see what would prevent Alinco
from making a HT that can talk to an ICOM repeater.
John D. Hays wrote:
Anyone can make a D-STAR air protocol
It is a question of the G2 network at this point, there is a lot of politics
going on about who and what can connect, but the technology exists.
Maybe that's what I was trying to say. :)
Well, next up is a node adapter of some type.
73--John
Has anyone linked to either experimental reflector XRF010 Germany or XRF267
New York? What is the proper data stream sequence since there is no port
assignment? EXAMPLE XRF267 L with or without a space.
Unfortunatley due to the nasty policitics which continues to constipate
DVAR/D-Star
Three folks with amateur radio callsigns chat over the internet, each using a
dv dongle...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dstar_digital/surveys?id=2600657
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