--- In [email protected], "Steve S. Bosshard (NU5D)" <bossh...@...> wrote: > > Hi Fran, > > Trouble is other linked gateways hear only one side of the conversation > - not a pleasant thing. Many stations do not use reflectors or > linking. steve > Hi Steve,
Over the last year, I have used my dongle to look at these one way conversations. I found two main culprits when you only hear only one side of a conversation. 1. Most common is that one or more participants DO NOT have their Gateway programmed into RPT2, and their repeater is linked. This should call for educational action by the local Repeater admin. Of course Icom useless manual is really to blame (RPT2 NOT USE). If your repeater has a Gateway, PUT IT IN RPT2!!! Even if you don't plan to use it. 2. a station is (incorrectly)using a preprogrammed Multi Call in their UR slot. This causes one sided conversations even without linking. I tracked this down when a one sided conversation was tying up Reflector 001C. The repeater they were talking on was not even linked, but one of the repeaters in the multicall list WAS linked to the reflector - the whole D-Star world had to listen to half of a conversation. Our local repeater gets one sided conversations almost every day from reason #2. 73 Hank - KI4UMX
