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Program Your Radio to Use
The Greater Pittsburgh Area's First D-STAR Repeater
Using the Icom programming software makes this task much easier. If you need
use the radio, this page might be helpful. Set the radio to use
444.350MHz. Set the duplex to +5MHz. This will cause the radio to transmit
on 449.35MHz which is the repeater's input frequency. The RF programming is
finished.
Set the radio to use DV. The default is FM. Check your manual for how to get
into the D-STAR setup. Once there, you will have four fields to fill in.
MyCall is your amateur callsign. In my case I set it to WA3YOA. There is
another field called Yourcall (UR or UrCALL). While you might think you should
use your callsign for this field too, it really is for the callsign of the
person you are calling. This causes a lot of people some grief. For general
usage set the URcall field to be CQCQCQ.
The Repeater1 field should be set to: "W3EXW C"
I used the
quotes to show the upper case B is in the eighth character position. This is a
common mistake.
The Repeater2 field should be set to: "W3EXW G"
This is a change from our
previous instructions. It turns out this field needs to be set to the gateway in order
to have a QSO with a DV Dongle user.
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Icom IC-91AD
UR : CQCQCQ
R1 : W3EXW C
R2 : W3EXW G
MY : WA3YOA
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Icom ID-800
MYCALL : WA3YOA
UrCALL : CQCQCQ
PRT 1 C : W3EXW C
RPT 2 C : W3EXW G
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Icom ID-1
UR : CQCQCQ
RPT1 : W3EXW C
RPT2 : W3EXW G
MY : WA3YOA
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Please make sure you substitute your callsign for WA3YOA. Ask most
Club members, they will tell you one of me is enough.
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