[CTxDSstar] Reminder & news

[ke5c]

Hi All!

-----PLEASE-----

If you know a Central Texas Dstar User who does not belong to his list, 
ask him/her to subscribe at http://www.kkn.net/mailman/listinfo/ctds - 
thank you!

-----reminder-----

Join us this Sunday (tomorrow) for the second Multicast Net AT 11:30 AM 
LOCAL TIME on K5CTX B.  Participating gateways are:

VA7ICM C
K6MDD C
W4DOC C
W6DHS C
K6SOA C
W9CEQ B
KJ4BWKB
KJ4ACNB
W6SHV B
K5CTX B
KD8DRGB

This will be a directed net, so transmit only when solicited and end 
your transmission with "over".  To participate, your radio must be 
programmed:

UR = /SUNDAY
RPT1 = K5CTX^^B (^ = space)
RPT2 = K5CTX^^G

and you must be FULLY registered on the gateway.  You must be registered 
as a gateway user and you must have gone back into the gateway computer
and entered a "terminal" (radio-callsign) under personal information. 
See part 2 of this earlier email (2A AND 2B):

http://www.kkn.net/pipermail/ctds/2008-April/000000.html

-----dx news-----

From: gm0ops via NU5D:

Over the past 24hours all of the current UK D-Star systems that had 
internet connections have now moved from the Test UK Trust Server 
(system that basically co-ordinates and syncs updates from all the 
D-Star gateways) to USRoot which is the world wide Trust Server.

The following systems have moved over

GB7DG
GB7DS
GB7DX
GB7FK
GB7IC
GB7MI
GB7YD

To see the activity on theses systems plus a list of all the other G2 
Gateways around the world (with the exception of Japan) please click on 
the link below or copy and past it into your webbrowser.

http://www.dstarusers.org/lastheardG2.php?lastheardsort=5

At the same time as moving the Gateways also upgraded to the latest 
version of D-Starmonitor and for the systems running it, they report 
back the GPS information rcvd from any users and you can then view this 
at try www.aprs.fi

Regards
John GM0OPS

-----local news------

Several folks have joined the DStar radio owners today or very recently 
including Ron, W5WRE and Anthony/Tony, WB5TTY.  I'm sure I'm missing 
several others.  Brad, WV5V, and Mark, NA6M, installed and tested the 
second generation ICOM software onto their Dell server this afternoon. 
Look for KE5RCS to be operational from Walburg in the next several 
weeks.  Alan, KB2WF, successfully tested the gateway computer and 
software for W5HDT, Houston, this week, and has the A module (1296) 
operationally testing in his garage pending a move to permanent quarters 
soon.

K5CTX and W5HAT have the latest version of dplus (beta 5) installed (as 
does KE5RCS).  AA4RC put beta 4 up last night.  I installed it, could 
not link repeaters, and emailed him about 6 this morning.  By late 
afternoon I had a reply to try beta 5 which seems to work much better. 
I'm going to leave these repeaters linked on the B band for the next 
several days testing.  This type of linking (dplus) is not part of the 
Icom software but is a gateway "extension".  If you transmit on either 
repeater, you will be heard on the other so long as you have RPT1 and 
RPT2 programmed.  On K5CTX you set these to K5CTX B and K5CTX G for 
example.  UR can be anything for this type of link to work.  I wish an 
information page existed on all this, but it does not.  dplus, btw, is 
also the piece of software that makes dongles work - operators using 
dongles can only work gateways where dplus is running.

73 - John