This is one line from the aprs.fi website with my call: ast path: N0XIA>APDPRS via DSTAR*,qAR,KJ4MMC-C (good)
You can see "DPRS via DSTAR" so you know it is from a D-STAR gateway, which is the KJ4MMC repeater-gateway. The one thing I would like to mention is that DPRS is not like analog aprs. Aprs configured radios are beaconing all the time on a simplex frequency. DPRS is coming from the radio on a repeater-gateway connection that is also handling the voice part, so you cannot run a beacon. Digital users will only send coordinates when actually talking on the radio. To enable the beacon has the potential to disrupt qso's in progress or to have fellow hams listen to their radios receiver opening and closing all the time when no one is talking (can be annoying). If you want to be seen all the time, you can still have a digital radio, but use the analog side of it on the aprs simplex frequency with a Tracker or similar device. I don't need to be seen all the time, so using PTT to send coordinates on my radio is good enough for me when I am actually talking. 73's James, N0XIA --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, "E.A. King III W5EAK" <w5...@...> wrote: > > Thanks for the answer! At APRS.FI, is there a way to tell which contact is a > D Star Contact? > 73, > Rex > W5EAK
