[Dstar] Australian D-Star News Update

[Richard Hoskin]

Hi,

 

There has been a bit of activity on the D-Star front over the past week so I
thought I would provide you with an updated summary on what is happening.

 

Coverage of the temporary UHF D-Star repeater (VK3RWW) on Mt Wombat has
amazed everyone with reports that mobiles have solid copy 160km to 200km
distance way to the north and north west of the repeater. This has
encouraged a number of the local Ham Operators to join in on the fun of
D-Star.

 

As you may have read earlier this week, the ongoing VK2RDS ADSL router issue
has resulted in the router being temporarily turned off. The Illawarra
D-Star admin team will be replacing the ADSL modem and router in the next
week or so. Rob's emailed earlier this week also mentioned that VK2RDS port
B (70cm) has had a frequency change to 439.8625MHz with a -5 Mhz offset.

 

The VK2RWN D-Star admin team of the Manly-Warringah Radio Society is also
having problems with their D-Star router. You may have noticed that VK2RWN
looses its connections to the International D-Star Network on an
intermittent basis. This is due to the router locking up. Work is under way
to solve this.

 

Internet connectivity to VK4RWN has been lost due to problems the service
provider has been experiencing. The D-Star repeater system it's self is
working well. There is no time estimate as to when the service provider will
have the broadband connection re-established.

 

The NSW Central Coast Amateur Radio Club (CCARC) took delivery of their new
D-Star repeater from Icom last week. The CCARC D-Star project team are now
hard at work building the new D-Star repeater. The repeater will operate at
the clubs Somersby site using the callsign of VK2RAG. It will operate on
146.6375 Mhz with a -600 Khz split and 438.325 Mhz  with a -5.4 Mhz split.
The project team have divided the CCARC D-Star project into to stages; the
first stage will involve building and installing the RF part of the repeater
and getting it on air. The second stage will involve building and installing
the Gateway and broadband connection to allow the repeater access to the
International D-Star Network.

 

Work is slowly progressing on the development of the WIA D-Star Digital Data
Intranet Web Network. Once the site hosting has been finalised and network
design completed the D-Star Digital Data Intranet will be ready for testing.

 

For information and radio configuration (ICF) files on D-Star in Australia
visit www.dstar.org.au <http://www.dstar.org.au/> 

 

Cheers

Richard

VK3JFK

 

 

 

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