One touch doesn't always work the first time every time. It is good for the JA station to call, and then wait 30 to 45 seconds and call again. Often the RX>CS is blank. If the JA station has changed repeaters in the last hour, his call sign may not have been updated to G2 also.
Not easy while mobile but his call should display JA#XXX/DNGL if using a dongle. The /DNGL being to part to look for. This morning I heard a JA station and "One Touched" his call. It did capture his call, but in the Reply I got RPT ? and never YOUR ?. You should get YOUR ? or UR? if the call reach the destination repeater in JA. Never did make contact and don't know why not. steve nu5d --- In [email protected], "john_ke5c" <k...@...> wrote: > > > Several mornings there has been a Japanese station or two on Reflector 1C > > calling CQ. Hoping to contact him, I quickly pressed the "One Touch" > > feature button on my ID-880H, verified that the UR and RPT call signs were > > set correctly, and called him back. However, the stations do not respond. > > When you hear a JA again, look at http://ref001.dstargateway.org/ to see if > he is linked via a dongle which was probably the case.
