[Dstar] Registration

[David Tilson]

James,

I'll break this reply up into a few sections to try to answer your
question.

To talk locally through your local D-STAR repeater you do not have to be
registered on the D-STAR G2 network.  Even if you place the local
Gateway callsign (eg: VK2RDS G (South Sydney)) in RPT2 you will not be
heard outside of the local D-STAR repeater, except by users of DV
Dongles.  However any DPRS (GPS) information will be picked up by the
dPLUS application (if it is running on the local Gateway computer) and
transfer positional information across to the APRS-IS.  

Technically you can be registered on any D-STAR G2 Gateway around the
world, however the common and generally accepted international practice
is to be registered through your local Gateway, which allows details to
be locally validated.  Once registered your callsign will be propagated
(over a few hours) to all of the other D-STAR G2 Gateways, around the
world and you will be able to access any system through any
appropriately configured G2 Gateway and people will be able to find you.
Which-ever Gateway you register on, will be the one that you need to
perform any of your account management in the future.  This could be
problematic if, for some reason, the Gateway system you originally
registered on is removed from service.

So, hopefully, to put an answer in context of your question... During an
emergency:
You don't need to be registered to use a local D-STAR repeater to talk
with local stations; however if you need access to the rest of the
national / international D-STAR network, or its features (Reflectors,
etc), you will need to be registered on a G2 Gateway somewhere.

An example of this could be where the portable D-STAR repeater, VK3RWW
B, is deployed to provide temporary coverage to an affected area.  The
portable repeater can be connected, through its G2 Gateway computer, to
the rest of the D-STAR network via either an existing broadband internet
connection, or via its internal 3G wireless modem (provided it is
available).  Once the internet connection has been established the G2
Gateway computer will propagate its details to the rest of the G2
network and (hopefully) within approx 2 - 4 hours it will know how to
route to the rest of the D-STAR network and the rest of the D-STAR
network will know how to route calls to VK3RWW B.  This has been shown
to be quite successful at a number of Hamfests / Field days, etc over
the last 12 months, but to the best of my knowledge, hasn't yet been
used during any emergency response.  In this instance new registrations
could be processed locally, to provide immediate temporary access to the
rest of the network.

I hope this answers your question.

Cheers,

Davidt, VK3UR

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dstar-bounces at lists.wia.org.au 
> [mailto:dstar-bounces at lists.wia.org.au] On Behalf Of James Cameron
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 March 2009 9:34 AM
> To: Dstar Digital Radio Mail List
> Subject: Re: [Dstar] Registration
> 
> 
> Does use of the entire network depend on this registration?  
> Or only the gateway?  I'm thinking in terms of what it would 
> take during an emergency to gain access.
> 
> (VK2LQZ ... an RFS volunteer, ICC radio).
> 
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