Thanks for the report Nick.
Because of "historical" reasons, the UHF was up first, then came the VHF and 1.2 stuff, and most of the active users are on UHF. As mentioned in a previous note, the CATV leakage is a known thing, and it helps not to have the rig in "Auto" mode for DV versus Analog FM. In "Auto" it will do what you mentioned. lots of noise, especially up high in Downtown like that. If you watch dstarusers.org, you'll see I'm often the "lonely VHF user". LOL! I go over there, link to Reflectors, chat with friends, and I think half the users here locally still don't even have the VHF *in* their memories on their rigs. It's kinda funny. UHF is "king" here, just because it was on the air first. There's a morning crew on UHF, according to the logs and dstarusers.org, but my work schedule has me driving in around 8-9 AM or a little later every day, and on the way home well after 6PM most nights. so I find it hard to find ANYONE, unless I link.. (GRIN). I don't "sync up" with that group that's on early in the morning very well, since I'm never on that early. If you make it back through Denver, give a holler on UHF. that's where you'll find "everyone". Usually. Nate From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Marsh Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First D-Star contact Hi Nate, I was in Denver last week for the SME conference and my 92AD would indicate that it heard analog FM on 5.25 when in DV mode. Going to analog I had a full scale CATV signal at the Residence Inn Downtown, never did hear the D-star repeater on VHF but UHF was fine. Didn't seem to be many around at 5:30 am when I got up every morning. 73, Nick WB4SQI [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
