I should have mentioned that the rigs themselves sometimes (in noisy or intermod-prone environments) will "think" they heard the repeater and open up with R2-D2 noises sometimes.
(Are you sure it was the repeater?) The Attenuator function built in to all of the Icom rigs can be used to alleviate this a bit, if the repeater you're monitoring is nice and strong at your location. just turn in a little attenuation to keep the rig's digital decoder from falsing on noise being received. Due to lack of VHF pairs, here in Denver we had to put our VHF repeater on the 145.25 pair. Repeater builders everywhere, can easily explain why this pair is generally avoided in most densely populated areas for analog FM use. CATV leakage. When driving around there are some areas of town that my ID-800H "hears" the CATV leaks and burbles a bit in R2-D2. But generally it's a good fit to do digital on this "avoided" pair. (Of course, the CATV leakage is on the output frequency and limited to a few very small areas of town, not the input frequency, and the repeater "hears" just fine. and the user rigs seem to capture the repeater's digital signals over the noise just fine, too. haven't done any in-depth analysis of how much error correction might be happening at the repeater-to-user-rig receive end yet, but I have no problems using the machine for voice traffic anywhere the UHF works.) Nate WY0X From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ipscone Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 7:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First D-Star contact I've been listening to R2-D2 today, on the Federal Way repeater. ;) Mike --- In [email protected] <mailto:dstar_digital%40yahoogroups.com> , "Nate Duehr" <n...@...> wrote: > > It is pretty fun, isn't it? Glad to have you on board, Mike. > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
