Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Repeater question
You are not automatically repeated. A 2-meter beam is probably your best option. On Apr 6, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Edward Raybould wrote: I hope that this is an easy question to answer. I've looked but haven't found the answer yet. When I'm on my local D-Star repeater, W8DIG in Columbus, Ohio, I set RPT1 to W8DIG^^C and RPT2 to W8DIG^^G. When I key up, am I also coming out on the A and B ports, or do those ports have to be explicitly chosen in RPT2? The reason that I ask is that I live on the wrong side of town to reliably hit the repeater with a vertical antenna. I would like to get a small UHF beam to point towards the repeater. There's a Sunday evening net on port C, and I would be coming in port B, but I would like to keep RPT2 set to the gateway for the dongle users. I know that I can set RPT1 to the B port and RPT2 to the C port, but that leaves out the dongle users. I will look at a 2-meter beam if using the gateway doesn't also cross-band me to all ports (which if I had to guess would be correct). 73, Ned Raybould N8OIF John Hays Amateur Radio: K7VE j...@hays.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Repeater question
Oh course in my previous reply I am assuming that you can hear the Sunday night net that is on node C you just can't hit the repeater with a good signal from your location. 73 Keith AB8CL --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, Edward Raybould erayb...@... wrote: I hope that this is an easy question to answer. I've looked but haven't found the answer yet. When I'm on my local D-Star repeater, W8DIG in Columbus, Ohio, I set RPT1 to W8DIG^^C and RPT2 to W8DIG^^G. When I key up, am I also coming out on the A and B ports, or do those ports have to be explicitly chosen in RPT2? The reason that I ask is that I live on the wrong side of town to reliably hit the repeater with a vertical antenna. I would like to get a small UHF beam to point towards the repeater. There's a Sunday evening net on port C, and I would be coming in port B, but I would like to keep RPT2 set to the gateway for the dongle users. I know that I can set RPT1 to the B port and RPT2 to the C port, but that leaves out the dongle users. I will look at a 2-meter beam if using the gateway doesn't also cross-band me to all ports (which if I had to guess would be correct). 73, Ned Raybould N8OIF
RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Repeater question
And if that's going to be commonly done during this Net, it would be good to get the people on the C module to reverse that route and do the same thing back toward you, so the Net is heard on both modules. otherwise, it'll sound like he's talking to himself to anyone only listening on the B module (UHF). Where it falls apart is if a user joins the Net in similar fashion from the A module. Another way would be to use the D-Plus broadcast to all modules mode. The repeater callsign all by itself with no suffix. URCALL=W8DIG^^^ If there's users on the A module who do NOT want to participate, or if that's not how the Net wants to be run. both the routing from UHF to VHF, and the broadcast route ideas will turn into more of a problem more than a help, though. Best solution -- get a better signal to the appropriate repeater, if the Net is supposed to be VHF-only. That latter part of that statement is a policy question for those running the Net. if they don't mind you coming in on the other bands, give either Keith's idea or mine a try. Keith's being better if there's no A module or users who want to participate on the Net from the A module. Nate WY0X From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dstar_digi...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Parker Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 3:17 PM To: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Repeater question It's easier than you think, Edward. set URCALL=/W8DIG^C (the VHF node where the net is) set RPT1=W8DIG^^B (the UHF node you come in on) set RPT2=W*DIG^^G (the gateway and Dongle users hear you) you'll have to listen to node C to hear the net. But when it's your turn to talk, switch channels to UHF memory channel speak your piece then switch back to listen again. Just my opinion. GL es 73 Keith AB8CL --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com mailto:dstar_digital%40yahoogroups.com , Edward Raybould erayb...@... wrote: I hope that this is an easy question to answer. I've looked but haven't found the answer yet. When I'm on my local D-Star repeater, W8DIG in Columbus, Ohio, I set RPT1 to W8DIG^^C and RPT2 to W8DIG^^G. When I key up, am I also coming out on the A and B ports, or do those ports have to be explicitly chosen in RPT2? The reason that I ask is that I live on the wrong side of town to reliably hit the repeater with a vertical antenna. I would like to get a small UHF beam to point towards the repeater. There's a Sunday evening net on port C, and I would be coming in port B, but I would like to keep RPT2 set to the gateway for the dongle users. I know that I can set RPT1 to the B port and RPT2 to the C port, but that leaves out the dongle users. I will look at a 2-meter beam if using the gateway doesn't also cross-band me to all ports (which if I had to guess would be correct). 73, Ned Raybould N8OIF [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Easy way to reply to CQ from Japanese station.
There's been some chatter about this, and many of us old-timers have posted that it shouldn't work but enough folks have posted it does that it makes me wonder. I don't remember for sure, but when the JA gateways first appeared in the database, I'm pretty sure individual JA users did not, but now they do, many with JA area and zone callsigns. Thus one possibility is that this info has somehow been dumped into the international gateway db and thus provides one-touch callsign routing information to get dv streams from us to them. At least two of the j-landers claimed to have been worked with one-touch replying are currently homed to wb4hro. A second possibility then is that the wb4hro gateway (custom?) software (or dplus on that machine) is somehow providing a worm-hole to j-land. I can't think of why else they would be homed there. 73 -- John --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, n0so n...@... wrote: I had a nice QSO with JA7NJN (Yoh) while mobile one day last week. The One-Touch Reply (RCS) on my 2820 worked OK for me. Yoh has instructions on his QRZ web page for replying to Japan stations. They include the One-Touch method. Give it a try! 73, Mike, N0SO --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, Y.Kawabe tiaradxer@ wrote: We found out gBest and Easy Wayh to reply from U.S. and EU, when you received CQ Call from Japan via D-Star Gateway. Just push One-Touch Reply button of your transceiver and capture the call sign Ex. 2820 push [RCS] 91AD push [RX-CS] However, this is an effective method only to the answer of the station in the U.S. and EU to Japan. Please try once. 73 de JF1TEU
