Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First D-Star contact
Mike: 3) Then I just keyed the mic and announced: JI1BQW, this is KC7VE on WA7FW Gateway Should that be all that is required to make contact with Kay, assuming she was online? If it is, why might this not have worked. The repeater, on my end was working, just before I tried this. I had a contact with someone local on it. Thank you for calling me, but missed your call probably because of the time difference. On weekdays, I can monitor only a couple of hours at night (early morning your time). # I know Kay is a female name. Don't be disappointed :-) 73, -- JI1BQW - Kay Ishikawa
RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First D-Star contact
Mike, From what you said you had your XMIT message set to /WA7FW G and you should probably set it to the port which your listening to in this case the XMIT message should be set to /WA7FW B which is the radio port that your listening on. Barry
Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First D-Star contact
Hi Mike, Welcome to d-star. Once you get a handle on making domestic calls, why don't you try calling Japan. I will be mainly monitoring /JP1YJVA (and sometimes /JP1YIQA). Please set this callsign to your UR (instead of mine) and call CQ with announcing your gateway (WA7FW). After calling CQ, please be patient a bit and give us some time to set your gateway to our radios. 73, -- JI1BQW - Kay Ishikawa - Original Message - On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:23:04 - ipscone ipsc...@yahoo.com wrote: I've been listening to R2-D2 today, on the Federal Way repeater. ;) Mike
RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First D-Star contact
Thanks for the report Nick. Because of historical reasons, the UHF was up first, then came the VHF and 1.2 stuff, and most of the active users are on UHF. As mentioned in a previous note, the CATV leakage is a known thing, and it helps not to have the rig in Auto mode for DV versus Analog FM. In Auto it will do what you mentioned. lots of noise, especially up high in Downtown like that. If you watch dstarusers.org, you'll see I'm often the lonely VHF user. LOL! I go over there, link to Reflectors, chat with friends, and I think half the users here locally still don't even have the VHF *in* their memories on their rigs. It's kinda funny. UHF is king here, just because it was on the air first. There's a morning crew on UHF, according to the logs and dstarusers.org, but my work schedule has me driving in around 8-9 AM or a little later every day, and on the way home well after 6PM most nights. so I find it hard to find ANYONE, unless I link.. (GRIN). I don't sync up with that group that's on early in the morning very well, since I'm never on that early. If you make it back through Denver, give a holler on UHF. that's where you'll find everyone. Usually. Nate From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dstar_digi...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nick Marsh Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:39 PM To: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First D-Star contact Hi Nate, I was in Denver last week for the SME conference and my 92AD would indicate that it heard analog FM on 5.25 when in DV mode. Going to analog I had a full scale CATV signal at the Residence Inn Downtown, never did hear the D-star repeater on VHF but UHF was fine. Didn't seem to be many around at 5:30 am when I got up every morning. 73, Nick WB4SQI [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First D-Star contact
Hi Nate, Nate Duehr wrote: Thanks for the report Nick. No problem Nate, There's a morning crew on UHF, according to the logs and dstarusers.org, but my work schedule has me driving in around 8-9 AM or a little later every day, and on the way home well after 6PM most nights. I heard the crew between 6:30 and 7:30 while I was getting ready to head to the convention center, pretty lively crew most mornings. If you make it back through Denver, give a holler on UHF. that's where you'll find everyone. Usually. I'll do that. It was a toss up between bringing my P25 radio and the 92AD. The 92 won the toss since I can use it for listening to other stuff also. Next year we go to Phoenix and probably back to Denver in 2011. cul, Nick WB4SQI
