[Dstar] Beaconing

[Michael Carey]

I might be looking in the wrong section of the manual, but I couldn't 
find anything specifically about "beaconing" in the IC-2820 manual. It 
can send GPS data/position on regular intervals, is this what you are 
concerned about? Or is there a way to automatically make a D-Star radio 
key up (without GPS input) on a regular interval?
I'm lucky that I am one of three people in the Port Lincoln area (at the 
moment) playing with D-Star, we don't need to worry about frequency 
congestion at the moment.
Until we get our 70cm D-Star repeater up and going (I'm picking up the 
duplexer tomorrow), I'm experimenting on the WIA band plan simplex 
frequencies. From my playing around, I could imagine that excessive 
automatic GPS positions would quickly become annoying on a D-Star 
repeater, especially if your radio beeps after each received 
transmission. This combined with people playing with low speed data via 
the repeater would quickly congest the system.
Michael.
VK5ZEA