My House View With Antennas

My House View With Antennas

Sunday 13 December 2009

ukrepeater.net D-Star maps

ukrepeater.net D-Star maps

************ Here is some local D-Star info that may be of interest to you...

Newbies to D-Star user guide by Susan VK3ANZ: http://www.dstar.org.au/Newbies_Guide_to_D-Star.pdf

Icom ICF data files created by Dave VK3UR - these will help you get started: http://www.dstar.org.au/icf.htm

D-Star live DPlus Dashboard for Reflector 3: http://ref003.dstargateway.org/

D-Star live DPlus Dashboard for Reflector 3: http://ref003.dstargateway.org/

D-Star users (global): http://www.dstarusers.org

DV-Dongle: http://www.dvdongle.com

D-Star Archives: http://lists.wia.org.au/pipermail/dstar/

D-Star video by Robin Cutshaw AA4RC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2aEk2UmE7Y

D-Star site by Adrian VK4TUX: http://vk4tux.no-ip.org:80/

Icom IC-2820H Mobile dual-band D-Star & FM transceiver: http://www.strictlyham.com.au/Icom/Mobile/IC-2820H.htm

Icom IC-80AD H/Held dual-band D-Star & RM transceiver: http://www.strictlyham.com.au/Icom/Handheld/IC-80AD.htm

Icom IC-92AD H/Held dual-band D-Star & FM transceiver: http://www.strictlyham.com.au/Icom/Handheld/IC-92AD.htm

Icom ID-1 Mobile 23cm D-Star & FM transceiver: http://www.strictlyham.com.au/Icom/Mobile/ID-1.htm

Icom ID-800H Mobile dual-band D-Star & FM transceiver: http://www.strictlyham.com.au/Icom/Mobile/ID-800H.htm

Icom ID-880H Mobile dual-band D-Star & FM transceiver: http://www.strictlyham.com.au/Icom/Mobile/ID-880H.htm

Last Heard list for my D-Star radios: http://www.jfindu.net/lastreports.aspx?call=VK3BA&dstar=1

D-Rats - messaging via the DV-Dongle and/or RF via radio: http://www.d-rats.com/oldwiki/

In regards to D-Star operation, you may have heard the term "R2D2" during a QSO. It's one of the few challenges of D-Star. Here's an explanation recovered from the D-STAR DIGITAL reflector:

R2D2 occurs when there is enough signal for the D-STAR receiver to detect the digital signal but the signal has degraded to the point that error correction cannot recover the original audio stream. It has long been observed that the trained ear may be able to pull the audio out of a very weak FM-Analog signal as the brain can "fill in" for the missing elements of speech. If you hear "che-r-le impal-" your brain has heard "chevrolet impala" enough times it can "correct" the missing elements. When the vocoder looses lock, it can take a little longer to get it back and the intervening sounds (R2D2) have little or no relationship to the speech that is being sent, as the brain has no frame of reference to rebuild the original phrase. Consequently, once the D-STAR signal falls into the thin slice between recoverable audio and dead silence, it is generally not useful - however as FM-Analog approaches that same signal level, copy becomes more and more difficult while the D-STAR signal remains quite clear, right up to that threshold.

Digital Voice Calling and Net Frequencies

Digitial Voice Calling Frequencies and Digital Voice Net Frequencies
3986.0 kHz USB - Digital Voice (Alternate) [North America]
3991.0 kHz USB - Digital Voice (Primary) - [North America]
7286.0 kHz USB - Digital Voice (Alternate) - [North America]
7291.0 kHz USB - Digital Voice (Primary) - [North America]
14236.0 kHz USB - Digital Voice [International]
18162.5 kHz USB - Digital Voice [International]

About Me

Just a little info about myself and what I'm doing here in Turkey.

I've been licensed since 1995, but have been in to radio since I was 15 years old. In 2003 myself and my wife Sue G8JGC wanted a little sun so we moved to Turkey, in 2007 we finally got our Turkish call signs which took us 2 years to get and in fact they are the same callsign for both of us TA4ZN, we also got told that we needed our Antennas as HIGH as possible so here are our 2 towers sitting in the back garden which look really nice to a HAM operator who wants to get beams as high as possible.

That’s it for now we hope to talk with as many people as possible and hope to get some rare DX.

So far we are now back in the UK for awhile but still in Turkey a lot but are hoping to be moving to Bulgaria ASAP and hope to get LZ callsigns as soon as we can.

In the UK
We have now setup a echolink and eqso system link which is on most of the time, you just have to connect and see which is online at the time the freq 145.3375 with a ctcss of 71.9 locator is JO03CI so if your around that area i.e. Mablethorpe give it a try. We also have NOV's for 29.530 - 51.910 - 145.3375 ctcss 71.9 - 434.500 we'll be testing those out over the next few months.

We are Founder Members of the Eagle Radio Group which is Located in Mablethorpe and go to the club night as much as possible.

We hope in the future to be living in Bulgaria at some stage so hope to work some of you from there.


I'VE JUST STARTED TO GET IN TO SSTV SO CHECK OUT http://www.exports2you.co.uk/index.html there you will see the SSTV I receive and have TX'ed, hope to see you on there soon!

We have also now started using D-Star from a HotSpot so hope to here more friends on there.

73's all

ROBERT M0AOV/TA4ZN

SUE G8JGC/TA4ZN