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Re: Simple drats question
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Hi John, I live in Mississauga and I work in TO. There are at least 3 repeaters in the area that I know about and I do not hear anybody on them. Except for the Tuesday Net at 8PM on YZZ,? I could not even test the radio for the longest time because there was nobody to talk to.? This is why I am looking at APRS since it seems to have its own dedicated frequency 144.390MHz. D-Star does have something like this. Like I said I am new to this and I may be very wrong about many things.? Thank your for your reply. Tom P.S. It would be great to have some dedicated frequency (and digipeaters) on UHF so if I want to run something like APRS I can. From: "John Davis wb4qdx@... [d-rats_group]" To: "d-rats_group@..." Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:52 AM Subject: RE: [d-rats_group] Re: Simple drats question
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Tom:
Where do you live?? In my home area and just about every place I travel, people don’t mind unlinking a repeater and relinking it somewhere else for a QSO.? As
a courtesy, it’s always good to announce your intentions to relink in case someone is monitoring for a specific station.? D-RATS can be a different issue.? Since voice stations can’t tell that you are running data (they just hear the repeater key up with no
audio), you may want to look for D-RATS nets for a time to relink.
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John WB4QDX
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From: d-rats_group@... [mailto:d-rats_group@...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:35 AM To: d-rats_group@... Subject: Re: [d-rats_group] Re: Simple drats question ?
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Hi Keith,
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I would like to add my two cents since I am new to this ham radio as hobby and to D-Star. I own my radio for about 3 weeks and the problem
with D-Star is that you can not really use it.?
You can not link really anything to your local repeater it will always upset someone, does not matter if this is Drats or a reflector.
I have heard 2 people on D-Star last week and I am guessing that nobody is using this system from the fear of upsetting someone. At this point I use my ID 31A for FM only, since all the action is there.?
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I have started to investigate APRS and it looks much more promising. There seems to be a dedicated frequency for APRS digipeaters. I have
dialed my scanner to this frequency and I can hear data bursts coming here and there. Since I only own ID 31A which does not do 2m I can not test it.
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What I do not get at all is the idea of setting up DVAP and using radio like a cordless phone around the house. Topic for a different
story :-)?Again, I am new to this and I may be missing something, but my first impression is that the system does not work.?
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Thank you!
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Tom
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From: "kc2oon@...
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To: d-rats_group@... Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 6:57 AM Subject: [d-rats_group] Re: Simple drats question ?
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You could set up your own Ratflector. After that you connect your DTAR radio to your ratflector via USB/Serial cable. That is what I do for our local
ARES. BUT I only connect the RF link to our DSTAR repeater for drills, practice and emergencies. Other than that the DRATS Ratflector is IP only, no RF.
I wouldn't link DRATS data over over a DSTAR repeater without specific permission. It's not voice and people may get angry if like you said, these repeaters
are active.
Instead if there are nets on the machines, contact the club conducting the nets and see if they would like to do a DRATS type of net after the voice net.
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Keith
kc2oon
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