D-Star Progress

W9DUA D-Star UHF Gear

The Sangamon Valley Radio Club's new D-Star repeater continues to move forward. The repeater itself won't move to its final location until the end of July/start of August but the gateway is now operating full time and accepting self-registration. If you are a new D-Star radio owner or DV-Dongle user in our area and are not currently registered in the D-Star network please join us!

W9DUA D-Star Self Registration

73,

Tim N9PUZ

Web Site Updates

Happy Independence Day to all of you in the United States!

I made a couple of minor updates to the main web site today. First, I got an email from Chris NØTTW telling me that the Programmable ROM I mentioned in my article on updating the KPC-3 TNC is no longer available. Second, I freshened up the listing of programs that are suitable for doing Winlink 2000 email here in Sangamon County, IL.

73,

Tim N9PUZ

Watson, Come here! W9DUA D-Star Repeater

Today was a major milestone in the Sangamon Valley Radio Club's D-Star repeater project. We got the controller, UHF repeater, and duplexer mounted in the rack and did some initial configuration of the basic system with a temporary antenna.

Around 4:30pm central time N9UWI and I had a successful digital voice QSO through the repeater.

Next order of business will be to get the gateway computer installed and reguster the system on the US Trust Server to allow Internet linking, etc.

73,

Tim N9PUZ