I will try again tomorrow. Sounds like the responses might have been normal and I should have tried a few more times. There really needs to be a cheat sheet on this stuff. It's been out for over a year and we are all still trying to guess what to do. ;-)
Thanks Mike PS: I will try CQ also. ;-) --- In [email protected], "Reiner" <reiner.w...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "ipscone" <ipscone@> wrote: > > Mike, > > > UR: /JP1YJVA > > R1: WA7FW B > > R2: WA7FW G > > MY: KC7VE > > /Mike > > This setup looks good. > > > I also set my TX MSG to: Set UR=WA7FW B > > One thing: set it to "set UR=/WA7FW B" (with one / and one blank between call > and module) > > > "JI1BQW this is KC7VE (Seattle) on Gateway WA7FW B" > > This very good, but calling "CQ on JP1YJA..." would also a good try. :-) > > > I made this call 3 times. I waited a loooong time between transmissions. > > I saw my display show two kinds of responses, in addition to my callsign. > > I saw "UR: ?" and "REP ?". > > UR?:<your repeater call> - means "call transmitted correctly" > RPT?:<your gateway call> - means "remote busy or unknown" > > > I also tried changing the call to "Gateway WA7FW G" when the first call > > didn't work. > > Didn't understand what this means, sorry. > > > Was this the correct procedure? > > Your procedure described above is correct. The main problem I see (not > particular on you), one can't hear what is going on on the remote site. So > all we can do is sit and wait. There is only the RPT?, which mostly shows a > busy remote site, but you have to watch your display all the time, and this > is a hard try on my ic-91 with backlight off, to save battery power. ;-) > > 73 de Reiner, dh9fax >
