Ray T. Mahorney wrote: > W7MOT. Now, in order to get my > admins to agree to allow my subscriber station to establish links, I had > to agree to put the node in a > known state at the end of my session
Ray... They're going to have to teach themselves (and users) how to use the "I" callsign to see what the state of the system is... sooner or later! The "power" in D-STAR is in having educated users. The "bummer" for D-STAR is that this puts a pretty heavy load on admins and people "in the know" to a) motivate people to learn how to use the system, and b) teach. Because the reality is... many users will not buy any of the handy guides, read the manuals, or be interested in the slightest... in learning how to operate via the Gateways. Motivation to learn callsign routing is very low until the day a user finds out a old friend is in range of another D-STAR repeater, or the user goes traveling to another area served by D-STAR. Then the admin/tech crew's cell phone rings with, "Hey, um... I wanted to ask you... I'm going to California this weekend and..." :-) There's also a disadvantage or advantage of the dplus links -- depending on how you look at it... They're either a blessing because users don't have to think about anything to talk through them... Or a curse because the users will never learn how to properly callsign route if they don't get any practice doing it. We're almost to 70 users and I still haven't heard anyone talk via callsign routing through the Gateway to somewhere else other than myself, or seen a user link to a Reflector, yet. The technology just scares people from trying it somehow. I don't know why. They certainly can't "break" anything. Nate WY0X
