On Jul 29, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Gary Pearce KN4AQ wrote:
- call sign routing. Enter someone's call sign in the YOUR field of
the radio, key up through your local repeater, and your transmission
will be routed through the Internet to the last D-SATAR repeater
that person keyed up (and it will open their radio if they had call
sign squelch enabled). There can be a delay of up to 30 minutes
before their last key-up is propagated to all the other repeaters on
the network, but new software is in the works to speed that up.
It's not only "in the works" but up and running. The problem is
getting gateway operators to take the few minutes (about 5 minutes on
Icom gateways) to install it. (Right now they do have to send someone
an email first, but once they get the reply its literally just a few
minutes.)
I have had this running on the gateway I administer for a couple of
weeks. The major gateway to the north of me and one of the ones north
of it have it running as well. I have watched the updates and when a
station moves from one repeater to a new one, the updates are sent to
every connected gateway usually before the person lifts their finger
off of the PTT button.
http://www.ircddb.net --- if you watch the "ircDDB Live" feed,
realize it only shows new or moved station reports, not every key up,
so you may want to just let it run for a while.
John D. Hays
Amateur Radio Station K7VE
PO Box 1223
Edmonds, WA 98020-1223 VOIP/SIP: [email protected]
