Not exactly so Ted. If the far end is busy you will not break into their conversation. You will get RPT ? in your display letting you know that you did not reach your intended destination (this RPT? happens with reflector routing because CQCQCQ is not a destination although the use of repeater 2 as a gateway does send your stream via dplus to the reflector).
Your * after you transmit means you did reach your destination. Also using dplus to link to just one distant repeater lets you be a "fly on the wall" and hear what is going on provided the distant repeater is not already linked somewhere. It is not easy to link / unlink to different reflectors while driving, even with lots of memories and such. The call fields on my 2820 are very difficult to read while driving. I do agree with etiquette issues. The same goes for 2 folks tying up 30 repeaters for hours on end. Not a perfect world. No flames taken or intended. 73 steve On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Ted Wrobel <[email protected]>wrote: > > > At the risk of drawing this into a flame war, it is my opinion that call > sign routing is an idea whose time will never come in a public network. It > suffers a fatal flaw in that is is entirely ignorant of remote repeater > activity and thus prohibits any attemp at etiquette. > > Since there is no way to know even what repeater you are being directed to, > and that there is no way to monitor that repeater even if you did, there is > no way to be polite with call sign routing. > > The only hope is that the repeater will ignore a message if it is busy at > some instant - and I'm not convinced that it does. > > Call sign routing appears to me much akin to the old party-line telephone > system with the exception that no one can tell when the line is busy. > > Frankly, Dplus is a far superior solution to remote contacts (In my opinon, > of course). > > 73 > Ted > W1GRI > >
