No we don't, one shouldn't presume to speak for the entire community.
D-PLUS linking has its plusses and minuses, the operator needs to
understand each and choose his methodology as best fits the
circumstances. One could also use repeater routing e.g. UR:/RP5TR B
and at some point we'll get a better design for gateways so that the
update latency is negligible, then user callsign routing is best.
The right way to do this is for the repeater to keep a local "last
heard at" hash table for user callsigns, and use that information to
route calls to a given user callsign -- the "trust server" should be a
backup for locally unknown callsigns. So if I call your callsign and
it is correctly routed to the repeater you are on, then the repeater
you are on notes the repeater I called from and any traffic for me
gets routed back to the repeater I called from. More dynamic and
adaptable than the current "server" based system.
Remember, DPLUS is not a standard feature of the gateway system. One
may have the case where the called (or calling station) is on a
repeater with only the Icom software and no way to do D-PLUS linking.
(Or they may be on a system with D-EXTRA instead of D-PLUS.)
On Oct 15, 2009, at 5:52 AM, Woodrick, Ed wrote:
If you know where your other party is, we recommend that you just
link the repeaters together.
Ed WA4YIH
John D. Hays
Amateur Radio Station K7VE
PO Box 1223
Edmonds, WA 98020-1223 VOIP/SIP: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
