Hello, Thanks for the info - I am beginning to get less confused! > > One of two things happened: > > 1. You aren't solid into the system. > 2. The local admins don't allow local users to control links. > 3. You aren't properly registered via the web interface as a Gateway > user. Again, contact your local owner/operators for instructions on > how to do this.
When I bought the radio, I asked and was given gateway access - and reading some of the other posts the W8RNL repeater does allow users to change reflectors. > > After you issue that link and get the voice announcement you do NOT > leave UR: set to the command, you set it back to "CQCQCQ" and any > local users transmitting will also automatically be sent across this > type of "hard" link. > > > OK, so I was expecting to hear someone other the locals What did I do > > wrong? > > > > Nothing. > I did not know you had to set the radio back to CQCQCQ - so that is something I just learned! BUT I think I know what I did wrong - I did not transmit into the W8RNL repeater, so I didn't send the command for it to change to a new reflector - I was under the mistaken impression that by putting something other the CQCQCQ in the UR field - I would only hear what was in the UR field (Did that just make since?) and it looks like it doesn't work like I thought. So that is what I did wrong, and I think (also a mistaken impression on my part) I should ask the other users on at the time if I or they can or what to change the reflector - so I learned a little more about how this system works - my impression was that if REF002CL was in my UR field that was all I was going to hear and no one else who hear me unless they also had REF002CL in the UR field.... > > Sounds like the local system owner/operators have linked it > somewhere. You'll have to look on the various web pages or ask them > what it's linked to. > Yes, they plan on keeping port C linked to a reflector all the time - so maybe I should use the 440 side to join in the Dstar Nets? > You actually need UR: /Repeater+Module with the module letter in the > eighth character field, not just the Repeater callsign by itself. Your right I knew that - just forgot to type it out!!! > This is not a connection, it's a callsign route to the far-end in Icom > style. It should not be done on a module that is linked with D-Plus > linking like the one that's linked to the Reflector. Do it on another > module, or disconnect the D-Plus link. > Since I am new at this and I would image a lot of others are too - what would happen if I did (without knowing the system was linked) put the callsign of a linked system with dplus in the UR field? > Each time you key up with an Icom style callsign route, you will get > back either RPT? or UR? from the repeater controller & the Gateway. > They are an indication that your transmission either routed correctly > or didn't. UR? means it did. RPT? means it did not. There are a > number of reasons (including the remote repeater being busy) you could OK, that makes some since, at least the system acknowledges the fact that you tried (maybe failed) but tried to get in....I had wondered about that, When I first was setting up my radio, I did not hear the repeater ID itself, I have since seen it on the screen a few times - but I was kind of expecting to hear it say "This is W8RNL...blah blah" like the convention repeaters do when you key down. > Hopefully the above helps. Mainly you need to talk to the local > admins and see how they have the system configured, make sure you're Yes, very helpful - and I am getting a little less confused by the minute! > properly registered as a Gateway user on the U.S. D-STAR network via > the web page on your local system, and if you continue to have trouble > you'll need them to look at the D-Plus logs on the Gateway anyway, to > see what's wrong with the callsigns the Gateway is receiving from you. > > Get in touch with 'em... > Others have also said that I need to talk to the sysops (roger at r and l electronics) - So that is what I will do in the next couple of days - But like I said the day I bought the radio I ask and was given access to the gateway...(Maybe I didn't understand what that meant at the time -- I am starting to learn more about what I asked for thou!) Thanks for the help and info - very good. 73s, LeRoy, KD8BXP
