Re: [dstar_digital] 91AD vs 92AD handhelds

2008-07-15 Thread Nate Duehr
. Not to mention a whole laundry list of other problems. The big pine tree -- who's needles are excellent attenuators at 1.2 GHz) being in the way, isn't helping either.) You gotta love microwave bands... eh? -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] D-STAR and blind hams

2008-07-12 Thread Nate Duehr
here locally, perhaps you and Dave and other folks talking on this thread will have come to some consensus on how best to get a complete newcomer who's blind, started operating on D- STAR. (Sounds like a great article for publication somewhere, doesn't it?) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] D-STAR and blind hams

2008-07-12 Thread Nate Duehr
-key.) Don't worry, even all us sighted folks get -- beyond that -- is a very twitchy RF S-meter on an ultra-hot receiver prone to inter-mod and IF mixes, and that information doesn't really mean a whole lot in a digital system. :-) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] G2 Software arrived

2008-07-08 Thread Nate Duehr
Manos Darkadakis wrote: Hello all I have finally received and installed G2 software. A few things I miss like, what is the trust server ip, how can I register our SZ1SV gateway there? Then we hope that we will be able to join the rest of the world from here at SZ1SV. Thanks in advance

Re: [dstar_digital] http://www.dstarusers.org/lastheardG2.php

2008-07-07 Thread Nate Duehr
g7akm wrote: Does any one know what has happened to this web site. http://www.dstarusers.org/lastheardG2.php? http://www.dstarusers.org/lastheardG2.php? DAVE. [ED Dstarusers.org had a major system failure over the weekend. See if the information you need is available just by going to

Re: [dstar_digital] 400 kHz Offset

2008-06-30 Thread Nate Duehr
Ernest Kapphahn wrote: Proposing any plan that requires existing systems to move, is not going to meet with a good reception. (rim-shot.) Pun intended? Good reception? I like that one Ernie. Nate WY0X

Re: {Disarmed} Re: RE: Re: [dstar_digital] Re: D-STAR Field Day Update

2008-06-29 Thread Nate Duehr
to be misbehaving. The owner may or my not have time to debug, but a replacement with another known-good supply was in order. Sorry if we missed FD fun on D-STAR from Colorado... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Limited access

2008-06-27 Thread Nate Duehr
at hand. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Inside Chassis coax - lossy

2008-06-27 Thread Nate Duehr
Charles Scott wrote: Not exactly the kind of comments I'd expect from you. I didn't notice which band it was for this unit, but from 440 up the little mobile duplexers can be pretty small and work well for low-power applications. Also, why are you worried about shielding? I believe the radios

Building redundant D-STAR Systems (was: Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Limited access)

2008-06-27 Thread Nate Duehr
Bob McCormick W1QA wrote: In what I've drawn up so far - one of the weakest points in our whole configuration is the D-STAR repeater controller itself! Its easy to configure redundancy in that last mile network connection ... and setup a reliable gateway including maybe even a backup system.

Re: [dstar_digital] D-Star scramble code

2008-06-24 Thread Nate Duehr
These types of scramble codes are common in telecom for doing things like ones density. I wouldn't even call them scrambled, that seems to be a term that picked up somewhere in D-STAR. Telecom engineers would simply call this line coding of different sorts. Study all of these, and you'll

Re: [dstar_digital] Interfacing Dstar Controller to an Analog Repeater

2008-06-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Ron Wright wrote: ICOM locked their products to work together. The ICOM D-Star controller does not put out typical controller logic and audio. It talks to its repeaters with a CAT5 cable in a digital control format...serial data. This data is broken down in the repeaters radios and used

Re: {Disarmed} RE: {Disarmed} Re: {Disarmed} [dstar_digital] First few key-ups garbled on Dstar Repeater

2008-06-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Ron Wright wrote: My concern is the attack/recovery times with digital. With a mobile swishing in/out in analog the recovery is very quick, instantly, but with digital it has to do its verification thing and takes time. This is what larger buffers and fast DSP processing is for in the

Re: [dstar_digital] D-STAR Calculator Update (and bug fix)

2008-06-18 Thread Nate Duehr
Woodrick, Ed wrote: Version 1.4.3.2 of the D-STAR Calculatorhttp://www.dstarinfo.com/Calculator/ http://www.dstarinfo.com/Calculator/ has been published. By only comment would be that there are currently 192 Gateways showing up in the Gateway Info page of the Gateways, and far less than

Re: [dstar_digital] First few key-ups garbled on Dstar Repeater

2008-06-18 Thread Nate Duehr
garyp609 wrote: I did more testing today and switched out the power supply for the repeater to an Astron SS-25M. I also cleaned the N-Connector pins and checked for loose cables. The receive is better today but consistently after the repeater sits for 5 - 8 minutes dormant and is keyed up the

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Amplifiers for DStar repeater use

2008-06-14 Thread Nate Duehr
out of the duplexer) 100%, including data/callsigns, perfectly. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Audio Streams for D-Star?

2008-06-09 Thread Nate Duehr
Simon Templar wrote: Are there any audio streams to listen to D-Star repeaters? This would be a good way to attract Amateurs that do not yet have D-Star radios. -- The views I present are that of my own and NOT of any organisation I may belong to. 73 de Simon, VK3XEM.

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: K7RST Stream running?

2008-06-08 Thread Nate Duehr
-Dongle on REF005A and heard both here locally, no problem. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[dstar_digital] thinking through the protocol...

2008-06-08 Thread Nate Duehr
area is impossible. So... RPT1 is fairly useless except in fringe/overlap areas on co- channeled D-STAR repeaters, and even then won't help much. A user in the overlap coverage area will cause problems. Just the strange things one thinks about while running errands on a Sunday... -- Nate

Re: [dstar_digital] thinking through the protocol...

2008-06-08 Thread Nate Duehr
it a few decades. (GRIN) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Suggestion/idea

2008-06-05 Thread Nate Duehr
of the site... and had an ID-1... GRIN) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Suggestion/idea

2008-06-05 Thread Nate Duehr
wd8knl wrote: Any user can drop an active link. The call sign does not have to be an 'administrator' as far as dplus is concerned. Try it. Eric WD8KNL It shouldn't work unless your admin has changed this section of the dplus.conf file to read like this: [adminusers] # admin

Re: [dstar_digital] RE: Suggestion/idea

2008-06-05 Thread Nate Duehr
WR9A wrote: I wouldn't doubt that at least *some* of those complaining about the high use of the system connected to the reflector would prefer to have a nice, quiet radio to listen to until someone called them. With D-STAR, we have that capability built into the system already; it's

Re: [dstar_digital] Suggestion/idea

2008-06-04 Thread Nate Duehr
Randy wrote: The complaints have been that the same one or two people are constantly rag chewing at literally all hours of the day and night and go on forever. I know these are open to the ham community and anyone has a perfect right to use them. I personally have had no problem with it;

Re: [dstar_digital] D-STAR Forums at Dayton 08 - DVD is Ready!

2008-06-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Gary Pearce KN4AQ wrote: D-STAR Forums at Dayton 2008 DVD Now Ready Wow, you're quick Gary. I was thinking about ordering the D-STAR User Seminar DVD for doing a presentation (or ten) here locally at some meetings. It says it covers the Dongle, but does it cover Reflectors? I'm guessing

Re: [dstar_digital] D-STAR Forums at Dayton 08 - DVD is Ready!

2008-06-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Gary Pearce KN4AQ wrote: Thanks for the head's up, Nate. It's fixed. I had notification going to my @arrl.net address, and when I put the new DVDs in the soup, I used my @arvideonews.com address for that product only. PayPal didn't like the confusion. I figured it was something like that!

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: AH-108 UR2 CANCELLER

2008-05-30 Thread Nate Duehr
Manos Darkadakis wrote: Hello Nate, aftertwo e-mails nothing is coming from tx/rx!!! Is it perhaps because I am far? just a guess 73 Manos SV1IW Wow, no idea. I'd give them a phone call, although I know that's probably not cheap to do from there. There's always the possibility that their

Re: [dstar_digital] Several D-Star questions (re: our current stack and antennas)

2008-05-26 Thread Nate Duehr
about a 17dB slide where analog sounds worse and worse, and digital is just fine. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] ID-800H Beeps

2008-05-23 Thread Nate Duehr
these low-speed data file- transfer tests sounds like I invested in a sonar company. Ping-ping, Ping-ping, Ping-ping... Heh.) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[dstar_digital] D-RATS testing and other interesting things

2008-05-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Hi folks, Did some interesting testing here tonight... we were playing around with using D-RATS *through* the Icom repeaters. (As opposed to the new D-RATS IP Repeater.) It was very hit-and-miss. IC-91AD to IC-92AD was almost flawless once we messed around with timers between W0CBI and

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: Thinking about jumping into dstar lots of questions

2008-05-19 Thread Nate Duehr
k7ve wrote: This is kind of a moving target. From your radio, you currently do not. The linking is not like analog, IRLP or Echolink. A transmitting station can address their transmission to a remote repeater or to a specific station through the gateway, stations on the other end have to

Re: [dstar_digital] Thinking about jumping into dstar lots of questions

2008-05-19 Thread Nate Duehr
I'll answer what I think I can Ken, and chop the rest... others can reply to your original message. ken cleaver wrote: Does it seem like there is significant growth in dstar? Are there other manufacturers adopting? [ED - http://www.dstarusers.org/dsm_growth.html

[dstar_digital] Re: D-RATS testing and other interesting things

2008-05-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Dan Smith wrote: Did some interesting testing here tonight... we were playing around with using D-RATS *through* the Icom repeaters. (As opposed to the new D-RATS IP Repeater.) FYI, I don't have a repeater locally, so I can't test it this way yet. A that would explain it. Where

[dstar_digital] Re: D-RATS testing and other interesting things

2008-05-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Dan Smith wrote: Actually, neither the windows control or the one in D-RATS lets you toggle it either way. I override the Windows setting when I open the serial port. I also always imply flow control in recent versions. It gives me a blocking read/write function that works on all platforms

[dstar_digital] Re: D-RATS testing and other interesting things

2008-05-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Adrian wrote: See my post on Linux_Dstar Nate? cheers Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not using the vk6tux these days) Wow, that needed a trim really bad. Adrian, I saw where you asked me if I had tried D-RATS on Linux yet. Is that what you mean? No, I haven't tried it yet, but I will

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: LINKING 2 (OR MORE) D-STAR SYSTEMS TO MAKE A ZONE

2008-05-12 Thread Nate Duehr
Manos Darkadakis wrote: Hello Mark and thanks for the info. I know of such links, as a matter of fact we are going to use one in 5 GHz to have internet available at the D-Star site on top of a 3500 ft mountain here in Athens. The other end will be at our headquarters where the computer

Re: [dstar_digital] Zappppp !!!!

2008-05-09 Thread Nate Duehr
a cheap $3 MOV, too. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dstar_digital] Re: FCC Denies Petition to Utilize 2m Sub-Band for Digital Repeater Operation

2008-05-08 Thread Nate Duehr
Robert wrote: One thing analog systems really need to do, which in this day and age there is no excuse not to, is use CTCSS or DCS on the receiver. This type of thing is the reason that Analog FM coordinations in our area REQUIRE that the system have a working CTCSS decoder. It doesn't have

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