The simple guide to using D Star radio
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- If you want to know how to link and unlink your D Star radio to a hotspot or a digital repeater then watch this video.
It will show you the commands that you need to input into your radio to connect to distant D Star gateways, nodes, the DCS, REF, XLX and XRF. reflectors - Наука та технологія
Thank you for the clearest explanation of d-star routing and the mysteries of UR, RPT1/2 etc and the confusing logic in setting them! Each scenario is clearly explained. After giving up trying to get my IC705 working on d-star by putting the 705 in terminal mode, via home wifi to a reflector (which I understand you should be able to do) I bought a hotspot. That didn’t work either and I spent a week listening to reflectors but not being heard, until I saw this video and I set the radio up correctly! (Still can’t get the 705 to work in terminal mode though! So if you can do one for that as well please .... 😉). Anyway - thanks from an M0 for helping me get on the air on d-star!
Mike, we have an IC-705 at the National Radio Centre which we run D-Star on. I will have a work with some of the guys and see if we can make a video for you when the centre opens after lockdown. Keith
Thank for this very clear and concise description. Makes complete sense now.
That's great to hear. My work is done.
This is a fantastic explanation, now I clearly understand what is D-STAR
Thanks, try my best.
Brilliant, just what I was looking for. Superb presentation, very clear and precise. Much appreciated!
Thanks for your kind comment David.
Thanks, clearly put and concise. Helpful and not overly verbose like so many others.
Cheers Tom.
Thanks for this. I have been having great difficulty understanding anything else I have seen about D star. Maybe I will be able to try it now! Thanks for you nice clear video. Mike. G4HLT
It's comforting to see that I'm not the only person that may have struggled with the TH-D75 and D-STAR. Yikes!
My goal is to have my Technician's License by my birthday in July. I'm going to get a icom-5100a and enter into this wonderful world of D Star radio.
Stick with it and hope to hear you with your call sign. 73 Keith
Thanks Keith … excellent help in what for me is a complicated new area !!! Neil G4LRV
Neil, you are most welcome. 73 Keith
You are most welcome Neil. 73 Keith
Subscribed - thanks for a clear explanation! 🙂
That’s great, cheers Keith
Thank You a great video on D Star.
Cheers Ray, that is nice to know. Keith
Great. Now I can setup my D-star ID-51A correctly. Thanks for the video especially the graphics makes it all a breeze.
Awesome, glad that I could help. Keith
You have given me the most comprehensive instructions so far. And the PowerPoint or whatever you used is fantastic. Seriously. I've been a ham for about 3 or 4 years now. Until a couple weeks back I've been mostly into DXing. This HT thing took me by surprise. I'm now wondering if the Icom ID51 (not sure of the name) wouldn't have been better. It just seems as if the Kenwood's architecture may be a little convoluted. Maybe it's the same with the Icom. For instance I went nuts trying to find why I couldn't do what the manual said to do regarding the up arrow. It said hold it down and you'd get to mycall or urcall. Not important as it didn't work. I finally found that I needed to be in the digital data area for that to work. I probably should just take a whole weekend and the manual and try to get myself familiar with the radio.
I have been able to make local repeater contacts thankfully.
I will absolutely be watching your videos a lot. And Thank You So Much for making this video by the way. I really appreciate it very much.
Thanks for your comment, it really means a lot to know that it was useful. Stick with it and have fun on dstar. Keith
Thank you for your comment, it really does mean a lot to know that it has helped you understand dstar. Stick with it and enjoy accessing the reflectors. 73 Keith
Excellent presentation, but I'll need to watch it 'N" times again before it sinks in! Cheers.
No problem, I'm still learning.
Thank you. Much better than every other video I’ve seen. But I still don’t know what you mean about a hot spot. Also does a radio like the ic-705 need to actually hit an actual repeater or can it use its own wifi? I’m very new. Waiting on my call sign.
Excellent presentation, now D-Star makes more sense.
Thank you and 73
Kevin, VK4KK
Thanks Kevin, nice to know I make sense sometimes. Keith
Hi Keith,
great video very informative and really easy to follow for a beginner on D star like me.
I will definitely check you other videos to learn more about the mode and how to make the best of it and my radio.
One topic that really interests me is to learn of a way to use this mode to spot my self on SOTA watch website while on summits doing SOTA.
Do you have any video that could provide some useful information on this?
Thanks for sharing.
Hi,
thanks for the kind comments. I do not use DStar to self spot but it would be possible to send your APRS location via the system if you have a GPS enabled DStar radio. Every time you TX it would ping your GPS location via the APRS network.
Thank you for all!!!!73
Welcome, Keith 73
Good video
Thanks James.
Honestly, this is the best explanation of this I have seen. GM4SVM
Thanks Gordon. My aim is to make this stuff simple.
Hi, just got my new 52A a few days ago. Still in the email process for my Dstar ID, so, can a ham enter the required info in the radio to set it up for receive (NOT TO PRESS THE PTT) to hear how digital sounds??
Thank you.
Thanks for watching.
So to initiate a link, you would just key up and that would establish the link provided everything is set up. Then when you are done key up using the YOUR: Spaces and Suffix of "U" to unlink?
Nice put together video though. No comments! WoW, everyone except me knows it all then! Keep them coming.
No Bob we are all still learning. Thanks for the comment.
@@TheHamRadioJunkie Is the spaces left blank or replaced by a * ? D Star is all new to me.
bob fourjs spot on. The * is just to signify a space.
@@TheHamRadioJunkie thanks, I was just wondering, just slightly confused as you did say Spaces. But cleared up nicely, thanks and take care out there and stay safe!
I’m a problem with my IC- 9700 I can link to a reflector but can’t link to a repeater can you help?
Thankyou! But darn is this Dstart crap confusing. I've watched 20 videos and read many web sites, and played with my new IC-705 functions and still have no basic idea of what the heck Dstar is or what you do with it.
I've gotten far enough to configure a local repeater that is a few miles away from me, and do an echo test, and the echo comes back loud and clear. So I guess I have stuff configured correctly. Maybe.
Here are some very basic questions I haven't found an answer to.
1. Do the repeaters act the same as analog repeaters by default? That is, if I select a repeater on my radio, and I'm in the DV mode, will I receive audio of anyone that sends to that repeater with CQCQCQ? And I could just transmit back and talk like a normal analog repeater works?
2. What happens if multiple people try to transmit at the same time? Will my radio not allow me to transmit if someone else is talking to the repeater? How can I tell if the repeater is busy? Or does it allow many people to use the repeater at the same time through some magic and digital bandwidth sharing?
3. Are the repeaters normally used for local chatting like the analog repeaters get used, local nets, etc? Or are they used like radio swtichboards to connect to other operators located though "gateways?" to other repeaters for private one to one calls?
4. What is a "gateway" vs a "reflector" vs a "hotspot". What do they each do and why do we use them?
5. If I use my local repeater to "connect?" to a "gateway?" am I blocking that repeater from being used by anyone else? Or does it support multiple uses at the same time? Can other people see that I'm using it somehow and how I'm using it or what????
6. I am getting the hint that a "reflector" is like a "chat room" where people can connect from all over the world and chat with each other just like we do with normal local analog repeaters, but that these are made possible by the magic of digital linking over the internet using Dstar. Is any of this correct?
7. on my radio, it sees to have a "reflector" mode.I can select and the "UR" field status display changes to "USE REflector CQCQCQ", What does it mean that I'm in the "reflector" mode? Have I done something to the repeater I'm connected to by setting this, or is it just my radio config I've changed at this point?
8. I see options for "Link to reflector" and "unlink..." You must tnter the reflector number. Ok. But if I link to a reflector, what does that do? Does it tie up my local repeater and make it link to this reflector for all local users? Or is it just a logical defined connection for me and my radio, so that messages from that reflector, get transmitted by my local repeater and hear it. But if I'm lesenting to messages from a reflector, can other people be using the repeater for their own use, like listening to a different reflector? Or can the repeater onlyi connect to one reflector so if I do that, I've blocked all other local users from using this repeater for their needs?
9. Any advice for a video or document or web page that gives a simple high-level overview of what Dstar is, and what you can do with it, that answers all the sorts of questions I asked above, before it jumps in to explain "you must add spaces" crap to how to "set it up" so I have a clue what it is I'm actually "setting up" to do?
One way or other, I will figure all this out, but after one day of trying to dig into all this, I'm shocked at how many absurdly complex "starter" videos and web pages I've come across with none of them even giving a high-level intro to what point of all this is! :)
Fantastic simple video - thanks - starting to make sense to me now (from G7BED)
Cheers Chris
Good day mate. I m operating an e92 and I m trying to check my local dstar repeater. Do you have anything on this radio , which I could use ? 73 de SV4RIN
If I was accessing a D-Star repeater on UHF via RF would my callsign be M1ABC**/B ? (*=space) Thanks
Sure would be.
newbie question, can you contact someone that is using an analog radio through a digital link using dstar (with a dstar radio of course) ? And can you use a hotspot to connect to the digital world using an analog radio?
There are a number of ways to achieve this but it requires the use of linked systems like Hubnet.
So would it be legal for a foundation callsign to connect this radio to the internet from abroad to a UK repeater and transmit/receive from a UK repeater while sitting in a hotel in Italy, for example?
My understanding is that because you are transmitting in another country the answer is no.
@@TheHamRadioJunkie I think you are correct, but when you think about it you are only transmitting in the UK, the rest is just internet!
machoneboard you would be transmitting in the country you are in on holiday even if it is into a hotspot. If you went to North Korea you wouldn't be allowed to operate even if you had a full licence.
@@TheHamRadioJunkie Is it ‘transmitting’ though, if it it just 0s and 1s into a router from a box, with no antenna connected? I don’t think NKorea even allows email but SKorea definitely does!
machoneboard if you are using a radio to connect from one country to another then I think it would be classed as transmitting.
Mike old ham here having problems setting up Th D74!any chance you couldnprovide info getting this radio onto DStar
Hi Mike, I don't have a Kenwood D74 but will look at the manual. Do you have a hotspot or are you trying to access a dstar repeater near you? Keith
Try this video it may help. ua-cam.com/video/WdkANzu1p_I/v-deo.html
Nice one. Do you have more videos on dStar?
Thanks David. What sort of thing were you after? Keith
@@TheHamRadioJunkie Though old, 89 years young, I'm a newbieTech. I'm looking into DStar and need also how use the software to store memory etc.
Btb, I got interested in Ham from my uncle a bachelor all his life. He was a fiddle player. He was Ray Noble's first fiddle player on that little song, "The very thought of you." He was also a very good brass pounder. He said it helped his vibratto. He could send and recieve at 60 wpm. He used to copy on a typewriter the news sent in CW from a Cuba station. He used to live in Hollywood and just prior to the war had a custom monster tube outfit that would make the lightbulbs glow at night. He put out the Californoa Kilowatt. At the beginning of the US in WWII, JE Hoover visited him to see his equipment. At that time, the US had very little radio equipment on the West Coast. Anyway, he donated his stuff to the Govt. He worked for awhile as a civilian decoding Japenese signals.
Thought you might get a kick out of the story.
David B. Monier-Williams great stuff, look we are all young and age really is no barrier. I'll see what I can do.
@@TheHamRadioJunkieThanks, looking forward to it. Appreciate it. Bestens
Can you encrypt aes 256 in dstar?
Sadly not.
@@TheHamRadioJunkie thank you for the reply. Looks like it comes down to DMR commerical setup with AES 256
What is the procedure for making contacts on Dstar newbie ie Call sign and what to say newbie so please don’t flame
Sean, put a cq call out just as you might on FM or SSB and see who comes back.
I use an old DV4mini into a USB port on the PC. I then click on the icon on my screen and the pre_ downloaded softwarecomes into action. It is not perfect but it works! I then turn on my icon handheld and put out a call. I,m sure your method is more efficient and would achieve more but it sort of boggled my 88 year old braincells,.thanks anyway!!!!
Peter, if it works then keep doing it. Never let age get in the way of ham radio! Keith
Clear as MUD, however, if I was using it it might be clearer. I will be looking back on this in the future though.
Now the spaces? Replaced by **? This was not around when I was in a Ham Club, but that was many moons ago! You still had to sit Morse back then! Now I am showing my age! I should have gone through my licence back then, but work got in the way then family life, it still is! :-(( But come the colder nights and I shall get stuck in again, I was ready then got distracted again, to many things going on and being disabled does not help! RTTY was new way new back then! Dear me! I have been the star unwillingly of Slow and fast scan TV at the club, I was sitting there minding my own business when the operator at the other end said "Oh, wait, turn back a bit, I see a known face there!" Yes, well, in front of the whole club, just as well I had been going there for a while!
You are in good company Bob, I am also a less abled ham (wheelchair mobile), doesn't stop much apart from needing a hand getting the antennas up and down. You know you are old school when you talk about RTTY on a machine rather than a PC.
@@TheHamRadioJunkie Not quite in the wheelchair yet, but I was told I would be 6 years ago, maybe up to 10 years ago. I am just stubborn. Anything up a ladder is a problem! I used to climb ladders every day for a living at one time!
bob fourjs I know it a pain. I was ok until 2002 then a spinal injury put a stop to that.
@@TheHamRadioJunkie That's a bummer!
@@BoB4jjjjs i can't get the setting in my 5100a ,the right way for d-star please help mjs ke8lwx
Wait a minute please. You jump right in and explain how to set up d-star. Unfortunately, I still don’t know what d-star is a why I need this in the first place. I have none of these complications down on 20 meters. I think I’ll just change frequency and be done with it. No programming, just fun rag chewing on the old ham radio. I honestly don’t want to be bothered pushing all those buttons! Someone please enlighten me! Thanks!
There are loads of videos on here about DStar. If you want to stay on 20, then fair enough.
@@TheHamRadioJunkie So sorry. Didn’t mean to be rude. I do enjoy your videos. It’s just that when I clicked on your video I was thrilled thinking I might finally understand what this was all about. Understand that it was meant for the more advanced vhf/uhf ham. I will do my research. Thanks! 73’s cheers
Lost me with all the spaces !
I know they could have made it easier to do but in its simplest form you need seven letters or spaces to make up the callsign or link.
makes no sense
I tried!
@@TheHamRadioJunkie lol its not you its me, im dense on dstar, trying to figure it out on my icom 5100. Its like a foreign language to me
@@darrellcollins877 I fully understand. It took me ages to get a grip with it. Stick with it.