Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Ham Radio D-Star Demos-PLEASE READ!

2008-11-11 Thread Dennis Rogers
What are you planning to use? Reflector? Any question base or format planned. I am retired and can help from here if I am aware of the above. Maybe you just want this local. Usually there are quite a bit of activity on REF001 C, but you may want to use another as in REF002 A or such. Dennis,

Re: [SPAM] Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Ham Radio D-Star Demos-PLEASE READ!

2008-11-11 Thread nhorv
I'm curious, what is a Reflector? I'm new to being a ham. Retired in '06 and got my license this year. Upgraded to General in September. I'm in Sun City, (Bluffton, SC) and we don't have d-star in our area. I would think Savannah, GA would be the closest about 27 miles. We hit the Repeater there

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Reflector message remote system busy

2008-11-11 Thread frank_valdor
Hi, we (i.e. DF0MHR_B, DB0BS_B, DB0NG_B, DB0DDO_C) are using the REF006D reflector. Sometimes when trying to connect to the reflector we get a remote system busy and no connection to the reflector is established. After a while and several tries it works. It seems, that we are only having the

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] what is a Reflector

2008-11-11 Thread john_ke5c
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, nhorv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious, what is a Reflector? A DStar gateway is a computer program, a computer, and an internet connection that also connects (digitally) to a DStar repeater (technically to a DStar controller which connects digitally to

[SPAM] Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Ham Radio D-Star Demos-PLEASE READ!

2008-11-11 Thread ki4umx
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, nhorv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious, what is a Reflector? I'm new to being a ham. Thanks in advance for any explanation. 73 Nick KJ4BSM Hi Nick, The easiest way to envision a Reflector is to think of it as a super Repeater for the D-Star

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] D-STAR GMSK Node Adapter - New Yahoo Group

2008-11-11 Thread kb9khm
I've just started a new Yahoo group for discussion of the construction/use/interfacing of Satoshi's GMSK Node Adapter. All interested parties are encouraged to join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gmsk_dv_node/ Mark (KB9KHM)

Re: [SPAM] Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Ham Radio D-Star Demos-PLEASE READ!

2008-11-11 Thread Mathaeus (Matthew Fonner)
nhorv wrote: I'm curious, what is a Reflector? I'm new to being a ham. Retired in '06 and got my license this year. Upgraded to General in September. I'm in Sun City, (Bluffton, SC) and we don't have d-star in our area. I would think Savannah, GA would be the closest about 27 miles. We hit

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] How much bandwidth?

2008-11-11 Thread Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA4TH / WQFK-894
Al, you need at least 1Mb UPLOAD to maintain a good QSO. (upload from the internet provider that is...) Minimum would be 768Kb up. I run a 768/128 and can not use multicast functions due to the upload speed... Also, if we have more then one dongle user connected, the data goes somewhere beyond

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: How much bandwidth?

2008-11-11 Thread john_ke5c
We have recently set up a D-Star repeater. While the repeater is working very well, we don't have ready access to the internet at the repeater site and are considering various options to get internet service there including wireless. My newbie questions are just how much bandwidth is

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Reflector message remote system busy

2008-11-11 Thread Woodrick, Ed
That can occur if your IP is not yet fully replicated. It also might occur if you try to connect both nodes to the same reflector. From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of frank_valdor Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:02 AM To: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] How much bandwidth?

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Carpenter
One of our hams has a cable connection that we use. He lives about a mile from the site and we use wireless from his place to our site. Tom Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail direct if you have more questions - Original Message - From: Al Wolfe To: