Steve, Three Questions: ------------------ Question 1:
Sinc you actually contacted Kay, I'm going to ask how you did it. I tried but clearly something was wrong on my end. ;-) Here is what I did. 1) I configured my phone as follows: UR: /JP1YJVA R1: WA7FW B R2: WA7FW G MY: KC7VE /Mike 2) I then set my Xmit Message to (just to give them the Gateway in a message): /WA7FW G 3) Then I just keyed the mic and announced: "JI1BQW, this is KC7VE on WA7FW Gateway" Should that be all that is required to make contact with Kay, assuming she was online? If it is, why might this not have worked. The repeater, on my end was working, just before I tried this. I had a contact with someone local on it. ----------------- Question 2: On a second note, this process above (minus any mistakes I made) seems to be for initiating a contact, or CQ, to a distant repeater. However, what if someone wanted to just listen to what is going on, on that (or other) distant repeater (i.e. JP1YJVA), without making a call. How could that be done? Is there a way to listen to other locations, by entering codes similar to IRLP? Process? ----------------- Question 3: Finally, what is the best source of reading, to get up to speed (so-to-speak) on D-Star? I'd like to do a bit more reading, so I don't have to ask so many simple questions. Thanks, Mike --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Bosshard" <bossh...@...> wrote: > > Thank you Kay for the enjoyable contact. I do hope folks outside > Japan will remember to place their repeater call sign in their TX > Message or say their repeater and module information several times to > allow time for the JA station to manually program that information > into their UR. First generation gateway software in Japan and second > generation gateway software are not fully compatible without some > patches, and features like call sign routing and one touch do not work. > > VY 73, Steve NU5D > > > --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, JI1BQW <ji1bqw@> wrote: > > > > Hi Mike, > > Welcome to d-star. Once you get a handle on making domestic calls, why > > don't you try calling Japan. > > > > I will be mainly monitoring /JP1YJVA (and sometimes /JP1YIQA). Please > > set this callsign to your UR (instead of mine) and call CQ with > announcing > > your gateway (WA7FW). After calling CQ, please be patient a bit and > > give us some time to set your gateway to our radios. > > > > 73, > > -- > > JI1BQW - Kay Ishikawa > > >
