Our ARES/RACES Dstar repeater in Grand Rapids, MI on 444.250 is local only. No gateway. We use it for our hospital communications program running dstarcomms and Id800's. It works very well without having the gateway. Very quite machine. Several of us actually are running laptops in our cars and chatting back and forth while mobile.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Langdon Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] No Gateway, what would a D-Star Repeater act as? At 12:50 PM 3/11/2009, you wrote: >Okay, I am new to this and can't seem to find a straight answer. > >If I can't maintain a Gateway for the Internet, could the D-Star >Repeater still transmit Voice and Data with users able to decipher >data using D-Chat or whatever ohter platform that is out there. The repeater would work perfectly fine as a standalone repeater, and voice/data can be exchanged between local users. If you have multiple modules, you can also route traffic between modules in the same stack. All the same tools will still work, the only difference is communications will be limited to the local repeater, because there's no connection to the outside world. 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
