Terry, I have added my comments to your questions, Need more help or information, please post them to the list, and if your and admin, I would ask that you join both DStar_Admins and Dstar-gateway yahoo groups. Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / WQFK-894
Fla. D-Star Tech Support Group http://www.florida-dstar.info <http://www.florida-dstar.info/> Polk ARES A.E.C. http://www.polkemcomm.org <http://www.polkemcomm.org/> BB8330 PIN: 30965B58 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Terry Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 10:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Gateway Error Information already registered Terry's questions: I have general questions about the personal information tab in the gateway personal information administration web site. I get the idea behind the screen. Short version is to assign an 8th position character to your call sign so it can map an IP address to you. Anyhow I have a shocking number of questions about this screen. The first is that I initially only created one terminal. Now If I try to add more I get the message: "WARNING : Information already registered. " *** KD4EFM> I get that when I leave the Initial box blank, since I already have a "space" initial already in the system. I add a letter and no problem. Don't try adding a number, it will fail. I just tested this against KJ4ACN. *** I infer that I will have to delete my existing terminal and add all of them at once. Does anyone know if this is true? It is my very limited experience that terminals take a while to propagate and I'm a little afraid of messing up this rather delicate system. *** KD4EFM> No, you do not have to delete your line 1, leave it be. IF you have multiple ID-1's that will be operating at the same time, the ip's matter. If your going to have more then 3 regular radio's in operation from a different area (or together in a demo) then you would add the additional line's (up to 10 max) and assign "blank", "A" through "J". Again, little to worry about here as far a voice goes. HSDD, yes, it would matter. *** --- NEXT --- This is the entire help text on the web page and I can't find ANY further information on the internet. If the station has multiple radios, Target CS are distinguished by initial(last character) of a space or a capital English letter. Definition character as follows..... (G)is a gateway. (S)is a local server. Usually RPT(Repeater) isn't checked, initial AreaRPT CS is the port A of ZoneRPT CS. If RPT is checked, AreaRPT CS is the same as Target CS. Can someone who understands the gateway software please explain: 1. What it means by a "server"? KD4EFM> Local server is another PC at the tower site, hooked up to the 10. router and assigned a static ip. See http://query.ki4swy.ortg and enter KJ4ACN and click search. By the way, if you try from any pc anywhere on the internet and do a lookup on emailsvr-kj4acn.kd4efm.org, it will point to 10.211.126.76. The only place this is useful would be on a Dstar Network via an ID-1 on the Data side. Another thing, we have also discovered, having the initial "S" in the terminal space is not good.. so we fore-go having any documentation on that... just know it breaks. 2. What is a "repeater" with regard to a DSTAR gateway? KD4EFM> Logging in as the gateway admin, you designate the module, see my reference to KJ4ACN. Only matters when you log in a the gateway. No meaning to a user at all. 3. Finally I am totally lost with what it's talking about with ZoneRPT and AreaRPT. KD4EFM> Ignore it as a user, ignore it as an admin. This is only reference to the use of the 10GHZ $10,000 dollar links. IF you had zone to zone coverage, this would be where you assign the neighboring node, connected to you via the 10GHz link. Any insight greatly appreciated.
