Fascinating. And very, very informative. Is there any way for a DStar user, either RF or Dongle, to determine the link status of a far-end repeater node? In this case, for example, could Yoh have gleaned the fact that WB8THD C was linked to REF001C before making his /WB8THDC CQ call?
If I wanted to make a CQ call to, say, /W4AES B, is there any way from my 880 I could find out if it were linked first? Thanks, Jeff KG8IU --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, "n0...@..." <n0...@...> wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > The station was JA7NJN, Yoh. > This was picked up on KJ4MMC at the AES store in Orlando, which is always on > REF001 C. > This is the second transmission from Yoh: > > "Remote gateway tx start (REF001 C) streamid fe26 hdr BAD 2010/08/09 > 09:30:40.899 > rpt2 (REF001 C) rpt1 (WB8THD G) urcall (CQCQCQ ) mycall (JA7NJN /YOH ) > user message (CAPTURE CALL BY R>CS) mycall (JA7NJN ) streamid fe26 > hdr f 400000 r2 JP1YJR G r1 JP1YJR ur /WB8THDC my JA7NJN /YOH fc 32e6 > OK > Remote gateway tx end (REF001 C) streamid fe26 cnt 94 missed 0 2010/08/09 > 09:30:42.383" > > The header would indicate he was using repeater callsign routing (/WB8THDC) > to WB8THD, port C. I know you can see a "CQCQCQ" in his UR field in the tx > start line. That is a Dplus quirk, but the header line information (hdr f > 400000) clearly shows he was using "/WB8THDC" in his UR field. Later on, Yoh > switched to your call for callsign routing after contact was established: > > "Remote gateway tx start (REF001 C) streamid 4b75 hdr BAD 2010/08/09 > 09:40:20.156 > rpt2 (WB8THD G) rpt1 (REF001 C) urcall (JA7NJN ) mycall (KG8IU /880 ) > hdr f 400000 r2 WB8THD G r1 WB8THD C ur JA7NJN my KG8IU /880 fc 19f6 > OK > Remote gateway tx end (REF001 C) streamid 4b75 cnt 243 missed 0 2010/08/09 > 09:40:24.989 > Remote gateway tx start (REF001 C) streamid 575b hdr BAD 2010/08/09 > 09:40:27.368 > rpt2 (REF001 C) rpt1 (WB8THD G) urcall (KG8IU ) mycall (JA7NJN /YOH ) > missed 1 packet(s) from stream 575b last 10 curr 12 > missed 1 packet(s) from stream 575b last 13 curr 00" > > You can see that both of you are now using your personal calls to callsign > route to each other. Unfortuantely, Yoh had some bad data, but still made it > through. I hope you find this of some interest. > > 73's > > James, N0XIA >
