Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Linking and Unlinking questions

2010-08-26 Thread Steve Bosshard (NU5D)
I suppose I would first send UR=XXNXX^^I (^=blank character space and XXNXX is the call sign of your local repeater - I must be in the 8th character space) to see if your local repeater is already linked to something. You can't dplus link to 2 places at once so if linked you may want to unlink

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Linking and Unlinking questions

2010-08-26 Thread Ted Wrobel
Hi, When a repeater is linked to a reflector an internet connection is made and the local repeater will transmit over the air any data sent from the reflector. The repeater will send and data stream it hears to the reflector for retrnasmission by any other linked repeaters. The courtesy of anno

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Linking and Unlinking questions

2010-08-26 Thread J. Moen
Congratulations on getting into D-Star, and for asking about linking etiquette. Steve and Ted pretty much nailed it in their responses. I'll try to add a some additional info. I hope this isn't all old info for you. As you probably know, the D-Star design and ICOM's implementation is to do c