Welcome to the W6CX Digital Voice Repeater forum
We encourage all subscribers to the W6CX-DStar forum to subscribe to this new forum.? We expect all D-Star topics to move over to this forum and the D-Star forum will eventually be
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Jim - K6JM
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More Info about the new W6CX DV repeater
MDARC has updated our D-STAR repeater to to new equipment.? We are using a controller called Multi Mode Digital Voice Modem (MMDVM) and have initially enabled D-STAR, DMR and C4FM/YSF. Here are some
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Jim - K6JM
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First Use of DMR
Hi all.
This evening I programmed the MDARC Multi Mode Digital Repeater into my TYT MD-UV390 handheld. I keyed up on Talk Group 91 Worldwide (Color Code 1, Time Slot 2) and called CQ. A very nice chap
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Michael Warren - W6MEW
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Re: First Use of DMR
Mike,
I really appreciate your note but more, I am glad you had some fun using the repeater.
That is not to say we all won¡¯t have some bumps in the road. Saturday I installed an add-on to the
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Jim - K6JM
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All modes back to normal operation
Fixed the problem and all seems to be working. Glad to have found it before the new day.
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Jim - K6JM
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Re: All modes back to normal operation
Great news Jim. I added the repeater to my DMR HT (Alinco DJ-MD5XT) and was able to reach it without issue from my living room using 5 watts. I'm in the Natomas area (NW) of Sacramento. I also added
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Ken Thomas - N6KEN
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MDARC Group Guidelines
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Mike Patterson
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MDARC website - new pages for Digital Voice repeater
The MDARC website has been updated to provide info about the new W6CX-DV repeater. There's an intro page about the repeater's digital voice capabilities, and specific pages for D-STAR, DMR and
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Jim - K6JM
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Yaesu Fusion radio owners - "linking" W6CX-DV to "reflectors"
We¡¯ll be correcting our C4FM webpage about linking to FCS reflectors with this info:
Short version: When using Yaesu Fusion radios to connect our W6CX-DV repeater to FCS reflectors, use Search &
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Jim - K6JM
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Re: DV Users: Callsign Registration Info (D-STAR & DMR especially)
Jim!
Thanks for your able assistance today! My switch to the new registration for digital seems to be working just fine. Awesome support. Thanks so much!!
73
Ralph
K6RAA
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Ralph An - K6RAA
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Picking a digital mode (and then a radio)
I wrote this reply to a question on another group ¨C the OP is thinking of getting into Digital Voice and is looking for suggestions regarding which mode (D-STAR, DMR or Fusion).
I thought this
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Jim - K6JM
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MDARC repeaters in RepeaterBook
Repeaterbook.com is a very popular website people use to find out about
repeaters. Our analog FM W6CX repeater is there of
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Jim - K6JM
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For those with D-STAR registrations at W6CX
You can again make your own changes to your D-STAR callsign registration info.
Since the attached email was written, I have been able to install the ICOM Registration page on a cloud server.
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Jim - K6JM
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Linking/Touting to other Repeaters
First of all I would like to thank you for the MDARC DV Repeater.
I had used the repeater prior to the instillation of the MMDVM and PiStar and seem to remember being able to link to other repeaters
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John Crowley - KF6WSK
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Re: Linking/Touting to other Repeaters
John,
Use the same method for REF. XRF, DCS and XLX reflectors. SET UR to xxxnnnmL as in REF030CL. R1 must be W6CX...C where dots are spaces so module letter C falls in 8th position.
Set R2 to
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Jim - K6JM
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Re: Linking/Touting to other Repeaters
Jim,
Thank you for your reply. I have been able to link to reflectors; what I was trying to do was linking to individual repeaters. That was an interesting point that for the REF you need to be
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John Crowley - KF6WSK
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Re: Linking/Touting to other Repeaters
John,
Very interesting post. First, I¡¯m glad you are making use of sending radio commands to link the W6CX DV repeater to various D-STAR reflectors or repeaters. MDARC encourages users to make
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Jim - K6JM
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DMR radio for under $100
<https://r20.rs6.net/on.jsp?ca=4e891674-812d-4e27-a3f9-2f699e32a093&a=1131514436760&c=bdd452a0-e9d3-11e8-a06d-d4ae5291bfcb&ch=bf50e080-e9d3-11e8-a073-d4ae5291bfcb>
I am not endorsing and
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Jim - K6JM
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Re: Linking/Touting to other Repeaters
Hi Jim,
Thank you for your reply; I never thought about linking restriction due to bandwidth issues; that does make a lot of sense. Thanks too for the overview of the gateway software and pointing
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John Crowley - KF6WSK
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Re: [MDARC] DMR radio for under $100
Roger,
(I¡¯m copying this to MDARC¡¯s digital voice forum also.)
I just checked at https://dstar.info/query.html and see your callsign is properly registered for D-Star. So you are in good shape
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Jim - K6JM
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