[dstar_digital] GB0RSR - Red Sands Radio Special Event Station

2008-07-11 Thread Declan Mc Glone
Hi All, Listen out for GB0RSR this weekend, they will be working D-Star and HF from this morning, and over the course of this weekend. The station is located off-shore on one of the Marine Defence Forts that were used during WW II in defence of the Thames Estuary. Some history on the Red Sands Fo

[dstar_digital] WH6DIG & Echolink

2008-10-05 Thread Declan Mc Glone
Hi, Wonder if someone can comment on whats happening with this? Was on REF001 this morning and suddenly heard an Echolink Time Out transmission. Is someone connecting Echolink to DStar? Interested to find out whats going on? Declan M0TMX

[dstar_digital] Re:JOTA on D-Star?

2008-10-13 Thread Declan Mc Glone
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, Tony Langdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 01:39 AM 10/14/2008, you wrote: > >Hi Tony, > > > >You recommendation (using the reflectors as a calling 'channel' and > >moving to a working connection) makes a lot of sense. The shortcoming > >will be skilled D

[dstar_digital] Re:JOTA on D-Star?

2008-10-13 Thread Declan Mc Glone
ing what D-Star Repeaters are connected to REF005C which may be helpful to see what activity is about. If this is of interest to you let us know and we can get the webpages organised for the weekend. Regards, Declan M0TMX --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, "Declan Mc Glone" <[E

[dstar_digital] Re: JOTA reflectors: 5C, 10A, 4A

2008-10-16 Thread Declan Mc Glone
John REF005C is at your disposal for the duration of JOTA. Here is the link to the JOTA REF005C status page , including realtime last heard list. We look forward to hearing lots of JOTA stations over the course of the weekend, and hope its a great success for all sta

[dstar_digital] Re: JOTA reflectors: 5C, 10A, 4A

2008-10-17 Thread Declan Mc Glone
You can see who is connected to REF005 A,B,C on this page. http://www.ukit.org.uk/ref005.html Regards, Declan M0TMX --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, "Declan Mc Glone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John > REF005C is at your disposal for the duration of JOTA. H

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Home repeater no longer exists on the network, what to do?

2010-02-27 Thread Declan Mc Glone
I couldn't agree more with you. A lot of people are fed up of all the "wannabees" fighting with each other, and I wasn't that interested in the history lesson either. Wrong group chaps, you could all set up your own group and go off and debate there about which one of you "gurus" knows more then th

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: DV dongle QSO ham radio?

2010-03-27 Thread Declan Mc Glone
Well said! I'm not sure what you are supposed to do if you operate using a Dongle, is the suggestion that you should ignore any other dongle users that might pop up? Just because someone has a view it's NOT Amateur Radio? If two dongle users are having a QSO on a repeater/reflector the opport

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Are you exprerencing anti d-star in your area?

2010-07-24 Thread Declan Mc Glone
In the UK, Icom sold their repeaters at a subsidised rate in the early days. I doubt they made much money on them, not sure what the position was in other parts of the world, but I’m guessing it was similar. They no longer need to sell Repeaters at low/subsidised cost. There are now so many othe

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Please help me support D-Star ...

2010-07-30 Thread Declan Mc Glone
Just waiting for the “Open vs Closed” debate to start (again!) Cue Rocky music! “FIGHT” Dex M0TMX From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dstar_digi...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tony Langdon Sent: 30 July 2010 14:23 To: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITA

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Please help me support D-Star ...

2010-07-30 Thread Declan Mc Glone
I think the issue there is simply that the majority of people just don’t do Callsign Routing, and depend on DPlus routing instead on the K5TIT network. So while this is a good technical solution, the knowledge and ability to do it seems to be sliding away. I suspect its not something that newcomer

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Please help me support D-Star ...and more !

2010-07-30 Thread Declan Mc Glone
your control head with a smart palm top that is easy to use ? Again my 5 cents (recent tax increases force me to go up from 2 cents), and I may as always be wrong, steve nu5d On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Declan Mc Glone wrote: I think the issue there is simply that the majority of peop