Yes the JA7 station should have been heard by all on the reflector and yes your response would have been heard if you have "WB8THD G" in RPT2. As a general rule you should always have the repeater call sign and the "G" in the 8th position so that your transmissions go out the gateway. This is true wether there is a gateway or not, as it does no harm if there isn't a gateway but has you prepared when ther
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Jeff Pyle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Driving around town yesterday day I happened to hear a JA7 station calling > "CQ Cleveland, CQ Cleveland..." I thought this was in response to my "KG8IU > listening, Cleveland Ohio" call about a minute before. Perhaps he heard the > "Cleveland" but not the call sign, something like that. Anyway, the local > WB8THD C node is normally linked to REF001C, so while certainly interesting, > DX wasn't unheard of. Over the next 10 minutes or so I heard him a few more > times. It seemed like he wasn't hearing my replies. > > So I had a thought. Perhaps he wasn't on the reflector, but he was routing > to /WB8THDC. "CQ Cleveland" would make a lot more sense in that case. I've > had an 880 for near two months now but until yesterday I hadn't had need of > the RX>CS key. I tried it, verified his callsign was in the UR field, and > called him back. This time he heard me, and we had a nice QSO. > > I didn't think to check the RPT1 and RPT2 fields. I imagine RPT1 was still > my normal "WB8THD C", but what of RPT2? In all the domestic examples I've > seen, this is set to the ".. G" callsign. Is that appropriate for basic > callsign routing as well? Or, was there likely something more specific to > him? I do know he was on a dongle. > > Now, the main question. It is my understanding that in a dplus-style > reflector link anything that hits the local port is also linked to the > reflector. If that's the case, did the JA7 station's "CQ Cleveland" calls > make it into the reflector? Did my transmissions after I hit the RX>CS key? > If so, perhaps someone heard it. I think it was during the 9 o'clock hour > EDT. > > He did make a comment that many North American stations "don't know how to > contact Japanese station". I can conclude only that we simply don't use > callsign routing much, so we don't know how to answer Japanese stations that > do. In his short message he did have something to the effect of "CAPTURE > CALLSIGN..", something he mentioned in his audio as well. It took me a bit > to come up with what that might translate to, but I think RX>CS was the key. > > Any thoughts? > > > Thanks, > Jeff KG8IU > >
