Hi Hank, What if their Gateways do not have linking capabilities as in Japan ? The JA station would have UR=NU5D, RPT1=JP4YDU A and RPT2=JP4YDU G . I reply with UR=JA4NYY, RPT1=K5CTX B and RPT2=K5CTX G . 73 When K5CTX B is linked, folks on the reflector will hear my transmission, but not the JA station's transmission. (unless if have this terribly wrong) 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 >
