You need to register through your nearest DStar repeater
.
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Dstar (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio)
Dstar is possibly the most popular of the three main Digital Systems, surprising really as I find it the most
tinny sounding of them all and the Forward Error Correcting (FEC) really doesn’t work terribly well,
however it uses reflectors that can be quite busy at most times (Like Ref 001C).
Mainly Icom radio based but also Kenwood TH D74, (pictured above) this mode was invented in Japan and
fast evolved into a world wide concern. However I believe (personal opinion) possibly the hardest of the
three to come to terms with in a programming sense and (at the time I did it) not the easiest to register your
callsign (that mantle still goes to Fusion).
However, I happen to like Dstar and there’s a lot of friendly Hams on there from all over the world, there is
a Worldwide Net on a Sunday late night (UK time)
Why oh why is Dstar so complex to register with?
With C4FM you just need to enter your callsign on the radio and you’re away, With DMR it is fairly
straightforward too, but for some reason they decide to make Dstar just that bit more complex than it
needs to be.
So is the pain worth the gain? Undoubtedly yes, there are many amateurs on Dstar and at most times day
or night you can find somebody to talk to. If you need to know which are the busiest reflectors at a certain
time this might be of help to you, Click Here. Take a look at the Ham Radio Now video’s below, they may
also be of great help, many thanks to Gary and Jeff for their filming of the event.
For Repeaters Click Here
For Registration Instructions Click Here
IPK
Okay so my IP was blocked because it had lots of bad data coming from my IP.
It isn't just duplicate connections but also missing headers on streams and bad sequence numbers in the
data stream. Worst of all, my IP received a stream from
REF001 and then sent it back to the reflector at the same time. so how could I know this?
I have been trying for four months to get this block lifted but so far to no avail, DStar really isn’t my
favourite mode that’s for sure, just so much Red Tape, might be designed by amateurs but not very user
friendly, sorry just my opinion.
Dstar (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio)
Dstar is possibly the most popular of the three main Digital
Systems, surprising really as I find it the most tinny
sounding of them all and the Forward Error Correcting
(FEC) really doesn’t work terribly well, however it uses
reflectors that can be quite busy at most times (Like Ref
001C).
Mainly Icom radio based but also Kenwood TH D74,
(pictured above) this mode was invented in Japan and fast
evolved into a world wide concern. However I believe
(personal opinion) possibly the hardest of the three to come
to terms with in a programming sense and (at the time I did
it) not the easiest to register your callsign (that mantle still
goes to Fusion).
However, I happen to like Dstar and there’s a lot of friendly
Hams on there from all over the world, there is a Worldwide
Net on a Sunday late night (UK time)
You need to register through your nearest DStar
repeater
For Repeaters Click Here
For Registration Instructions Click Here
Why oh why is Dstar so complex to register with?
With C4FM you just need to enter your callsign on the radio
and you’re away, With DMR it is fairly straightforward too,
but for some reason they decide to make Dstar just that bit
more complex than it needs to be.
So is the pain worth the gain? Undoubtedly yes, there are
many amateurs on Dstar and at most times day or night you
can find somebody to talk to. If you need to know which are
the busiest reflectors at a certain time this might be of help
to you, Click Here. Take a look at the Ham Radio Now
video’s below, they may also be of great help, many thanks
to Gary and Jeff for their filming of the event.
RPT2 designates where you want your signal to be routed
on your local repeater, normally RPT2 is set to
the callsign of the local repeater followed by
“G” (The setting does not matter for simplex)
RPT1 should be set to the local repeater and module
that you're trying to access. (The setting doesn't
matter for simplex.)
URCALL can hold routing information or linking commands;
to just use the local repeater, URCALL should
be set to "CQCQCQ".
MYCALL is your own call sign, eight characters maximum.
You're allowed to add "/" and then other characters;
I think the original intent was so that you could sign
"/P", "/M", or "/A", but for D-STAR some
people get creative, like "/BOB" for someone named Bob,
or "/74" for someone using a TH-D74.
Before these newer radio’s came about you had to program
it manually, in fact on certain occasions
nowadays you have to add new individual repeaters etc,
though this is not very often it does help if you
know the procedure involved so I have added this,
Not the easiest thing to program.
Newer Dstar radio’s are easier to use, in fact if you go to
dstarinfo.com you can in fact download the latest repeater
lists which are like Dstar Codeplugs (yes I’m sure you’ve all
heard that terminology by now)
These days Icom and Kenwood Dstar radio’s come supplied with
Dstar repeaters for many countries already on board and using
the near repeater function makes getting on Dstar from the radio
point of view very easy, just program your info into the radio and
if you have access to a repeater you could be on Ref 001C in no
time at all.
However, if you own a hotspot and wish to add a new repeater
to your list that’s where the programming above comes in. As I
said, not the easiest radio’s in the world to program (in fact not
the easiest system of the big three to understand) but by
following the process it’s not impossible.
If you feel it’s not going to be easy for you then I think it is best
to leave it alone and get someone with knowledge of the system
to do it for you.
IPK
