[Dstar] Question about Reflectors

[Michael Carey]

...but it wouldn't be hard to have some canned words ready to be 
transmitted, similar to the existing DPLUS announcements. Ideally you 
would have the alphabet in phonetics with some other key words, like 
numerals, recorded as well.
With my idea, in response to a UR of "_______Q" the gateway DPLUS 
software could "speak" something like this, "currently connected to 
reflector zero zero one port bravo" or in the case of DPLUS being 
connected to another gateway "currently connected to gateway kilo kive 
tango india tango port alpha".
Maybe DPLUS could occasionally transmit this info as well, maybe after 
some idle time. I've got no idea how easy this would be to implement 
into the DPLUS software, but I can see this kind of enhancement being 
very helpful for those without access to a PC and internet connection 
(eg while mobile or portable) to get an idea of where their local D-Star 
repeater and gateway is connected.
Michael.
VK5ZEA
Ray T. Mahorney wrote:
> presently a q would not work as the D+ software does not have an alphanumeric library to spit back the 
> requested information in spoken form which would be more convenient to have than a scroll of what is 
> connected.
> Ray T. Mahorney
> WA4WGA
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Carey" <michaelcarey at internode.on.net>
> To: "Dstar Digital Radio Mail List" <dstar at lists.wia.org.au>
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 03:12
> Subject: Re: [Dstar] Question about Reflectors
>
>
> I would like to know this as well...
> I was told about this web page,
> www.nj6n.com/mon
> ... which shows activity on the reflectors as it happens, but I haven't
> found anything that shows what D-Star repeaters/ports are connected to
> each reflector and port at a given time.
> It would also be good to be able to find out what reflector a D-Star
> repeater port is connected to via a radio query. I was thinking
> something in the lines of sending a Your Call transmissions with
> _______Q (seven spaces plus Q) and the DPLUS software reads back the
> connected reflector to you.
> Michael.
> VK5ZEA
>
> Andrew Hood wrote:
>   
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Is there a way to find out which repeater gateways are connected to a
>> Reflector?
>> For example, I believe that VK3RWN port C is permanently connected to REF003
>> port C but the jFindU
>> lists only show the stations that have been heard recently and the repeater
>> callsign does not come up.
>>
>> When I click on the "Locate REF003 Repeaters" link a map is displayed but
>> there is no information on it.
>> This is the same for reflectors 1 to 4 but the UK reflectors 5 and 6 have
>> information about the nodes
>> connected to it.  It would seem that they get the information from the UK
>> Interconnect Team and not from
>> Dstarusers.org
>>
>> 73
>> Andy VK2EAH
>>
>>
>>
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