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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 Here are some step by step pictures an explanation I originally made for a …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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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ircDDBGateway in Pi-Star I received messages about how to update DStarRepeater as Pi-Star also ships with a quite outdated DStarRepeater.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 March 5, 2019

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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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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