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Buggy Icom ID-51 and ID-5100 Firmware – UPDATED

Buggy Icom ID-51 and ID-5100 Firmware – UPDATED
DStar / Ham Radio  bug / icom / id-51 / id-5100 / mmdvm December 7, 2019 October 20, 2020

On November 6th 2019 and December 5th 2019 Icom released new firmware. According to Icom’s claim on their latest release it fixes issues with “other manufacturers” hardware and that there were no issues with Icom …

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Pi-Star: Scheduling DStar Reflector Linking and Unlinking

Pi-Star: Scheduling DStar Reflector Linking and Unlinking
DStar  dstar / g4klx / pi-star October 5, 2019 January 23, 2021

Do you want your repeater or hotspot to automatically connect to a specified reflector at a certain time? It is quite easy to do that, almost no command line stuff is involved.

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Howto: Setting up and using D-PRS on Icom ID-5100

Howto: Setting up and using D-PRS on Icom ID-5100
DStar  dprs / dstar / icom / id-5100 July 26, 2019 January 19, 2021

Setting up D-PRS on the Icom ID-5100 can be confusing for beginners as the radio has lots of options for D-PRS. Here are some step by step pictures an explanation I originally made for a …

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XLX reflector direct connection

XLX reflector direct connection
DStar  DCS / dstar / ircddbgateway / kenwood / REF / reflectors / thd74 / XLX / XRF / yjgx-xe(( June 26, 2019 June 28, 2019

As i mentionned in this earlier post, with the XLX reflectors came some confusion for the users. A few months (almost 18 months ago actually) I modded ircDDBGateway so that it’ll be able to connect …

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ircddb and quadnet, what is this all about ?

ircddb and quadnet, what is this all about ?
DStar / DStar Explained April 28, 2019 August 29, 2020

Following my previous article about the REF/XRF/DCS/XLX differences I will  try to explain what are ircddb and QuadNet and what they are good for. There is some misunderstanding about what those things are.

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DStar Life Hack: Is the station local on the repeater?

DStar Life Hack: Is the station local on the repeater?
DStar / DStar Explained  dstar / gateway / local / repeater December 26, 2018 December 26, 2018

While listening to a QSO on a DStar repeater have you ever wondered how to know if the station you are listening to is local on the repeater or coming from a distant source (reflector, …

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Compile and install the latest DStarRepeater in Pi-Star

Compile and install the latest DStarRepeater in Pi-Star
DStar  d-star / dstar / dstarrepeater / g4klx / icom / id4100 / id51 / pi-star November 14, 2018 January 23, 2021

After publishing my article about updating ircDDBGateway in Pi-Star I received messages about how to update DStarRepeater as Pi-Star also ships with a quite outdated DStarRepeater. Updating it will get you the ability to use …

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REF, XRF, DCS, XLX: what’s the difference ?

REF, XRF, DCS, XLX: what’s the difference ?
DStar / DStar Explained  d-star / DCS / dstar / REF / reflectors / XLX / XRF November 8, 2018 October 17, 2022

This is a question often raised by beginners to DStar : what is the difference between all those reflector types? I’ll try to give you an insight on this throughout this article.

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Compile and install the latest ircddbGateway in Pi-Star

Compile and install the latest ircddbGateway in Pi-Star
DStar  d-star / g4klx / ircddbgateway / pi-star November 4, 2018 January 23, 2021

Pi-Star allows everyone to setup and run a digital voice Hotspot easily, its ease of use largely contributed to the late Hotspot invasion. However, the DStar software shipping with it is quite outdated. It is …

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Motorola R100 Repeater goes digital

Motorola R100 Repeater goes digital
DStar  dmr / dstar / mmdvm / motorola / repeater January 6, 2018 October 20, 2020

Introduction I came across a Motorola R100 repeater, those were very capable low to mid duty analogue repeaters in the mid 80s up to the 21st century, yet some of them are still in commercial …

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