I think the issue there is simply that the majority of people just dont do Callsign Routing, and depend on DPlus routing instead on the K5TIT network. So while this is a good technical solution, the knowledge and ability to do it seems to be sliding away. I suspect its not something that newcomers pay a lot of attention to either. Its a shame really, but having the ability to reduce the lag in synchronising between callsigns as they move from Repeater to Repeater is a valuable one. It just feels like its arrived too late. If this was around near the beginning of the WW expansion of the D-Star network, perhaps we wouldnt have needed DPlus. Or perhaps DPlus and Reflectors would have taken a different direction. So the ability to Callsign Route and exchange information across Networks on a Routing basis is a very positive development, but its just the lack of routing thats probably having the biggest impact on it. Who knows, but I also like the Callsign Squelch feature in the radios. And again, because people dont route directly, or callsign route, its a feature rendered useless in the radios.
Difficult to see how you increase uptake, DPlus and the Reflectors just seem to be a lot easier in comparison to Direct Routing. I do accept that there may be areas of the world where this might be the preferred way of doing things, but none spring to mind as I write this, notwithstanding those who currently have it installed on their repeaters. Dex M0TMX From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of john_ke5c Sent: 30 July 2010 15:44 To: [email protected] Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Please help me support D-Star ... > Just waiting for the "Open vs Closed" debate to start (again!) For callsign routing there wouldn't have to be a debate if folks would utilize ircddb: http://db0fhn.efi.fh-nuernberg.de/doku.php?id=projects:dstar:ircddb Only a handful of gateways on all systems have installed it, however: http://ircddb.net/ Maybe it's a start. 73--John
