Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Farifax VA

2009-08-09 Thread Scott Bellefeuillle
Please check out the below listed page and you will learn about the fairly newly created National Capitol Region D-Star Association, which is comprised of several metropolitan DC area D-Star groups. http://d-star.mit.edu/index.php?title=Main_Page There are are approximately six working

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Repeater can’t “hear” well

2009-08-09 Thread Steve Glen
Is there an adjustment for receiver sensitivity on either the RP 2C or the RP4000V?  Once a transmitted signal gets more than about 100 or 200 yards away from the site we can not key the repeater.  We have checked antenna, duplexer, and feed line and all of those seem to be working well.  Once

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Repeater can’t “hear† well

2009-08-09 Thread Steve Bosshard
Hey Steve, you may find this link helpful. http://www.bosshardradio.com/dstarrepeatertesting/ This link provides for a PTT switch on the TX and a receive FM audio monitor point. (note the repeater does NOT demodulate dstar date into audio, but you can easily inject narrow FM (+/- 2.5KHZ

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Repeater can’t “hear” well

2009-08-09 Thread Bob Cumming
Steve There have been many documented problems with the RP4000V. One thing is to test for desense - this snip from a message by Steve NU5D, covers it well: Its very simple to listen to the receiver discriminator with an audio monitor while injecting an FM tone into the receiver, and key the

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread Nate Duehr
On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Steve Bosshard wrote: It seems with so much brain power floating around out there that linking software could screen the sending station's UR and either unlink or send a call progress tone from the repeater letting the person making the call know something

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Repeater can’t “hear ” well

2009-08-09 Thread Nate Duehr
On Aug 9, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Steve Glen wrote: Is there an adjustment for receiver sensitivity on either the RP 2C or the RP4000V? Once a transmitted signal gets more than about 100 or 200 yards away from the site we can not key the repeater. We have checked antenna, duplexer, and

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread Nate Duehr
On Aug 9, 2009, at 7:51 PM, Fran wrote: I SAY LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS. IT WORKS FINE. I don’t understand why to want to stop them from going to the reflector Duh. That's an easy one. It's so simple it appears to elude everyone. Because the people on the Reflector CAN'T TALK BACK

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread Fran
So what! They can't push a couple of buttons IF they want to talk back!!! It doesn't seem to disrupt anything in my opinion! Fran -Original Message- From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dstar_digi...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nate Duehr Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread Bob McCormick W1QA
Nate Duehr WY0X wrote: If D-Plus would simply refuse to send any packets to links or Reflectors with anything other than CQCQCQ in the UR field, the problem would be solved. It's a *really easy fix* that allows both callsign routing and Reflectors to live in relative harmony, and only

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread Bob McCormick W1QA
Fran wrote: I SAY LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS. IT WORKS FINE. I don't understand why to want to stop them from going to the reflector Goes back to the issue of mixing callsign routing and using a reflector. There are cases where sometimes a listening party will only hear one side of the

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread Adrian
Nate Duehr wrote: On Aug 9, 2009, at 7:51 PM, Fran wrote: I SAY LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS. IT WORKS FINE. I don’t understand why to want to stop them from going to the reflector Duh. That's an easy one. It's so simple it appears to elude everyone. Because the people on the

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread Fran
Our repeater is always linked to a reflector and we want people to be able to call route to us, so it is NOT a good solution. Fran http://www.miele-family.com/weather http://www.miele-family.com/weather _ From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread iain.philipps
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com mailto:dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com , Fran f...@... wrote: So what! They can't push a couple of buttons IF they want to talk back!!! It's not a talk back issue, it's a resource issue. If a user has selected an explicit callsign routing then I would beg

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread Tony Langdon
At 12:19 PM 8/10/2009, you wrote: So what! They can't push a couple of buttons IF they want to talk back!!! It doesn't seem to disrupt anything in my opinion! I agree with Nate, it seems a simple solution to handling the different traffic types. If UR = CQCQCQ, then it's fair game for

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread Tony Langdon
At 12:36 PM 8/10/2009, you wrote: Our repeater is always linked to a reflector and we want people to be able to call route to us, so it is NOT a good solution. Well, they WOULD be able to callsign route to you. What Nate's idea avoids is the repeater having to carry the callsign routed

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread iain.philipps
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, Fran f...@... wrote: Our repeater is always linked to a reflector and we want people to be able to call route to us, so it is NOT a good solution. Seems to be a misunderstanding somewhere along the way. The proposal is for how -=OUTBOUND=- traffic

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread Tony Langdon
At 12:59 PM 8/10/2009, you wrote: Seems to be a misunderstanding somewhere along the way. The proposal is for how -=OUTBOUND=- traffic should be handled / routed, not inbound. Maybe it's me that misunderstood? No, sounds like you got it right Iain. I understood Nate's idea the same way as you

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread Nate Duehr
On Aug 9, 2009, at 8:43 PM, Adrian wrote: It´s really no big deal for the amount of callsign routed incoming calls that occur. A vast percentage of op´s, had to relearn(or even discover) this part of d-star during the contest. That's kinda my point. Aren't most people often avoiding

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread Nate Duehr
On Aug 9, 2009, at 8:36 PM, Fran wrote: Our repeater is always linked to a reflector and we want people to be able to call route to us, so it is NOT a good solution. Fran Nothing about my solution would stop that. It would simply stop your Gateway from routing THEM to the

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Wouldn't It Be Nice ?

2009-08-09 Thread Adrian
That's kinda my point. Aren't most people often avoiding callsign routing in the U.S., because of bad interactions between the two types of routing? There are a lot out there that simply don't know how to do it properly, or could not be bothered with it, but probably some for that reason. I