Hi: It is the same thing after all. But for me DR mode makes my life quite easier. I can switch between repeaters and URs quite easily with less memory manipulation.
There are four repeaters accessible from my house and more if I am on the road. There are a hundred or so destination repeaters and twenty to thirty individual callsigns I want to call. I have them all in my repeater and UR memories. I don't have to put all the combination (local repeaters x destination) to the regular memories. For example, if I want to add your callsign, I would only add it to my UR memory. When I call you, I would just select a local repeater I want to use and then select your callsign from the UR memory. So, since they are all in my repeater memories and UR memories, I am not very much motivated to use the regular memories. It may be different of course in a different situation (is this what you say YMMV?) like how many local repeaters you usually use, how many destinations you want to have, if you only use gateway routing or you use callsign routing also. 73, -- JI1BQW - Kay Ishikawa ----- Original Message ----- On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:26:04 -0000 "kc4...@bellsouth.net" <kc4...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Hello Kay, > > I have been using what you told me for sometime now and it's working great. I > was showing a friend about it the other day and he brought up a very > interesting question. So in DR Mode you can program the repeater and all the > information that is needed to work that repeater and store it in the repeater > list. So he ask how is that any differant then just putting that repeater and > all the information needed into a regular memory and access it in Memory > Mode. Once he ask me that question I realized that if it's in the repeater > list in DR Mode or in a regular memory it's seem the same. So what does DR > Mode really do?? > > Thanks, > Larry > > --- In <mailto:dstar_digital%40yahoogroups.com>dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, > JI1BQW <ji1...@...> wrote: > > > > Some time ago, I wrote here that in the DR mode of the 80 (and probably > > the 880 too) you cannot set RPT2 with UR=CQCQCQ. > > > > I have found recently that you would be able to set UR=CQCQCQ AND > > RPT2=gateway at the same time if you have CQCQCQ in the UR Callsign > > memory. > > > > Go to DR mode > > Select a repeater > > Long press UR button > > Select GRP UR (instead of GRP CQ) by pressing BAND button > > Select CQCQCQ (which you set in advance) > > > > Don't get confused with CQCQCQ in GRP CQ which does not allow you to set > > RPT2. > > > > It is meaningless in Japan, but I thought it might be useful for Dplus > > users outside Japan. > > > > 73, > > -- > > JI1BQW - Kay Ishikawa > > > > > >
