You probably know all this, but when preparing to visit a new area, you can find out about the US Trust registered D-Star repeaters at http://www.dstarusers.org/repeaters.php?repeatersort=5
W7AES is interesting. I notice Daniel reports W7AES does not work at this time. And when you go to their DPlus Dashboard at https://w7aes.dstargateway.org/ it shows no links and no last heard callsigns. But the dstarusers.org page for this repeater at http://www.dstarusers.org/viewrepeater.php?system=W7AES shows 18 Last Heard callsigns from various places around the world, including one just a little while ago. The other Las Vegas repeater is listed as N7ARR. http://www.dstarusers.org/viewrepeater.php?system=N7ARR shows only 2 callsigns on its Last Heard report for the last 14 days, but that page also lists the trustee's email address, so you could contact him for answers to your question. The same repeater list shows W7KDS in Kingman, AZ (last time I was there was 1963). There is one Last Heard callsign for the last 14 days. It might makes sense to DPlus Link to all of those repeaters and see if anyone is around. Jim - K6JM ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Lewis To: dstar_digital Cc: lasve...@aesham.com Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 4:23 AM Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] D-STAR in Las Vega$ I'm going to be headed there in the near future for a few days... Although there are many other things to do there, I usually bring along radio gear, that will include D-STAR for the first time this year. I'm looking to tinker around on W7AES-C or W7AES-B, probably to link to a repeater in Cincinnati "just because I can" to make contact with a few people here, and then drop it. Trying to get a feel for how busy those systems are, and how receptive the locals are to this kind of activity. The wide-coverage stuff out there is "famous" (relative to anything we have out here in 8-land) and it's expensive to maintain, and those who pay should play. I definitely get that -- just trying to get a "barometer" of the D-STAR environment there. While I'm thinking about it...how about the same questions for the systems in Kingman/AZ? -73-
