Hi ALL, I just wanted to say a quick hello to you all and to introduce myself to the group.
Im Steve EI2GYB located on the very north tip of Ireland near Malin Head in a town called Carndonagh. I moved over from the UK in 2005 and love it over here. I have joined the group as I am looking to setup a new repeater on 70-cms in the near future & its been said why not setup a D-Star node. Well knowing nothing about D-star I thought this was a good starting point. I still need a little convincing about D-star as so far its been a challenge to even get the DV Dongle working out of the box. Its taken me a day to get it running but sill seem to have connection problems & loads of packet loss... Is this the norm for D-Star? Is there any different software available for the DV Dongle other that what is downloadable from the DV Dongle webpage? Any way I think that enough questions for now Many thanks again for letting me be apart of the group & I hope I will gain the knowledge needed to eventually put up a node in the near future! Many thanks Steve EI2GYB
