I will only say this because I witnessed it. I have heard (not on the reflectors as you speak) Connies net on repeaters in Ireland, England, Australia, Canada, Most of South American through telephone conversations. I find it hard to believe that one would not believe that these broadcast are not heard around the world. One time I was talking to a friend who was at the time in a Taxi in London. He ask me at the time about it. I stay off of it mainly because For one about the only thing I can do is listen unless I leave my apartment and get in line with the repeater in downtown KC. Which is if I remember on a 70 cm frequency. I heard the same conversation on a 2 meter frequency which surprised me because when all these people talk about different reflectors I never hear one of them say that they are on the same one. They are on different ones. Now granted I will admit to you that I am just writing what I have heard personally. Knowing what is being set by who ever has the repeaters I do not know. Plus D-Star even after I have had it since it was made available on my ICOM radios has been a mystery. From the information that I am able to access about the one close to me I have no control over it or what it does. Only the owner does as far as I know. So. I admit I know little but do know that your voice goes a lot further than you think it does. I also think there is a lot of misunderstanding about the Digital Star Medium. I for one would say that not even those who put up the antennas know that much about it. I have tried to get information and understand it but none of reads to me like the 2 meter repeater here that I can change it around where it will connect too. I have yet to see instructions on how to do this with D-Star. So if you can lead me somewhere that would tell me these things I would appreciate it. Also I am not trying to be a smart you know what about this but am confused because when I hear what I hear from where I have heard it and listened to the people tell what they are hooked up to and look at logs that are on the internet I believe that it is world wide when you key that Mike. Just like it would be if you key HF on a good night. I may be wrong but to many times have I heard the nets it to many countries. Of course some are begging for D-Star and don't have it and are using those dongle things. Which I think is great as I believe it will take a little longer to get those places covered.
And I probably would chime in on a net if I could get to the repeater (reflector) from my apartment. I am still trying to figure out what I need to get around this small hill. If I walk north with my HT for about two blocks I am right in line with the downtown repeater and it works pretty good. But it is now raining outside and it has been to cold to stand there with my HT to talk on D-Star if you know what I mean. It would probably help me to understand if I was able to talk more on it. The last time I got to talk on D-Star I talked to a Taxi Driver in Liverpool. It was so great. It sounded like he was just across the street. Well. I am rambling because I really don't know that much about it and am making opinions on some things that maybe I don't understand. I just know I have heard Connie's net all over the partly all over the world. She is always hitting the repeater in Downtown KC because it comes up on the log they have. I just personally don't think D-Star is a place for a Net. But that is my opinion. Of course all other bands have Nets so there you go. Correcting myself. Ha.. I'll just read posts here print them out and try to learn more so when I figure out if how to get on the silly thing from inside my apartment (I am disabled so getting out is a problem) then maybe it will all make since and I can have the fun you are talking about. Thank You for your reply it does help. James KD0AJZ ----- Original Message ----- From: Ted Wrobel To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 7:57 PM Subject: RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR communication Hello James, Well, as someone who runs a DStar net I would offer a couple of comments. First, I assume that since the net covers many miles it must be on a reflector. If you don't want to be connected to that reflector you might be able to unlink the local repeater from that reflector. The ability for individual ops to link/unlink is up to the repeater administrator, but many allow users to switch linking. There are lots of reflectors you could link to, and most are pretty open. When you say 'keying the entire world' you're not really accurate. You are keying on all the repeaters connected to that reflector. Might be a lot of stations, but it ian't he world. Second, why don't you jump into the net? Unless it is one of the really large nets (Like Connies in Springfield MO) you can probably get in pretty quickly. We always ask for new stations every few minutes and are always glad for anyone who comes aboard. I haven't seen anyone intentionally rude on any D-Star activity, but maybe I'm just lucky. Anyway, hope you join in and play with the rest of us. 73 Ted W1GRI ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Earl Wells Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 20:37 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR communication Wow, I do not know where you live but I thought that where I live was the only place that people were rude on D-Star. I think some do not or wish not to realize that when you key up on D-Star you are keying up on the entire world. Now I am not against nets. I love the ones we have here on 2 meter and 70 cm. However there is someone that runs a net once a week in (well not really in my local area) an area a few hundred miles from here on D-Star. It can last around an hour or more and personally I find it annoying. Plus it is at time when I would rather try to do some D-Star work in other countries. Now I know that this is all part of ham but to me since D-Star is like keying a Radio in every home in the world there should be more people acting like ham radio people should act. Between turns there should be a time to allow others to jump in. I thought that was the idea. Getting more people together. Well that is my opinion and I stand by it. I am not an old timer but everyone that I know and who has influenced me into this hobby are old timers and they teach respect for the other operators and letting everyone have a go on the mic. Hope that I don't make anyone mad but then if I do then maybe they need to re-read the the General Course. I love this hobby and would hate to see someone(s) ruining the Hobby that I enjoy. I am disabled and between the Ham and this computer they are my connections to the outside world and I have lots of friends and have lots of teachers who have helped me learn to build things and learn to be a considerate Ham Operator. I am now off my soap box. Be Kind.. Let Others have a Chance at the Ham Line. James KD0AJZ ----- Original Message ----- From: Catrina White To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR communication I am frequently using a repeater where there is NO ACTIVITY when I turn on the radio, listen for a few minutes, put on my reading glasses to see if anything is scrolling on the bottom of my IC 91ad, have it turned to high pwer, and use my BIG mobile antenna. It works for the most part. Is it jsut the fac tthat others are being rude, and just keying up when I am trying to transmit? I ask about my signal and am told that everything is fine on my end. I give up!! What else is there to do? are people really that rude that they will jsut key up and not check to see if anyone is transmitting? in DSTAR, eveyone gets knocked off, not just the big guy. Couldnt someone fix that? It is obviously a HUGE GLITCH!
