At 08:47 AM 6/6/2008, you wrote: >CSQL based on topics would get REALLY confusing for anyone NOT >participating though, I'm sure. Then if folks have REALLY read their >manuals, you'd start seeing abuses of both the BK and the EMR >features... from the more clever folks trying to break-in to the >conversation they could hear but never seem to get anyone's attention in.
Hmm, yes, the cure could be worse than the disease here. Certainly CSQL for those who are merely waiting for specific calls would work though. As for the topics, I for one don't mind chatter going on in the background. It it gets too boring, I'll just reach for the off button, and come back later to see if they've finished (We have a couple of older hams here that use repeaters like a "free telephone", though that's not so common on the VoIP networks). >:-) > >Listening in all day today to REF001C, have heard some technical, some >ragchew, some "typical" drive time hellos, and a few folks who ran into >people they didn't expect to hear on D-STAR... seems like a pretty >normal "mix" when comparing it to other large linking systems, so far. Sounds good. I can't wait to get my Dongle to listen in (using the radio is impractical, because of computer noise issues and also not sure if we have user control of linking here). In any case, the QRM issue kills reception, so I can't monitor D-STAR while working. :( >And I'm impressed the DPlus hasn't dropped off today... been trying to >get W0CDS to stay on the REF through a full day and haven't made it >yet... no timeout set on our end, but it drops with a "timeout" >announcement -- sometimes after only a few hours, sometimes many... but >haven't made it 24 hours yet... just to "prove" the system really isn't >all that stable yet... > >(I have seen IRLP nodes that have been connected to reflectors for more >than a month at a time.) Both IRLP and Echolink are much more stable than this, and in my experience are limited only by the stability of the Internet connection and mains power. :) Wonder if it's an issue of brief dropouts. Both IRLP and Echolink can tolerate brief Internet dropouts. In the case of Echolink, up to 40 seconds by default (I can even bring down a conference server and put it back up and the connected stations transparently reconnect if I restart it within 30 seconds), and IRLP, it depends on a few factors, but varies from 10 seconds to over a minute (provided the node's IP address doesn't change after the dropout, of course). How tolerant (or not) is D-STAR/dplus of these brief dropouts? 73 de VK3JED http://vkradio.com
