The 20 character message works very well and would be a good place to do "Tactical" if you need more than 4 chars. The issue for the callsign is that in D-STAR the callsign field is more than identification, it is part of the addressing scheme. Whereas in APRS you often are just reporting position and status, it is fundamental to D-STAR network routing to have universally unique addresses (e.g. your legal callsign) in the various callsign fields - it is global in nature. If you are *not connected* to the gateway network then it really doesn't matter.
Dennis Griffin wrote: > > I haven't tried it, but checking my ID-92AD manual, it seems that a > user defined 20 character message can be sent with every PTT > activation, so maybe that method could be employed when needed. > > 73 de Dennis KD7CAC > -- John D. Hays Amateur Radio Station K7VE <http://k7ve.org> PO Box 1223 Edmonds, WA 98020-1223 VOIP/SIP: j...@hays.org <sip:j...@hays.org> Email: j...@hays.org <mailto:j...@hays.org> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
