#dstar — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dstar, aggregated by home.social.
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@hackaday
The project has quite Interesting licensing.
Authors code is BSD2, but it also pulls from GPL licensed stuff and shows Copilot as a co-author as well.But it's a low cost D-Star radio!
This would have been much cooler 20years ago tho.Now, who will make a DD D-Star rig?
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@kb6nu Yep. I'm hoping to see the #aurora #auroraborealis and I'm on #dstar
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The new community driven #DigitalVoiceNewZealand documentation library is online! See the contributing guide for improving our documentation around #xlx reflector #XLX299, connecting by #ysf #dstar and other modes or just read up on all the telephony features of #NZSIP.
#amateur_radio #ham #digitalmodes #voip
Docs powered by #mkdocs and our community!
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Had been using an ancient install of G4KLX's Dstar stuff on an old Raspberry PI 2 and a 70cm DVAP Dongle - switched that out to a Raspberry Pi 4b running Pi Star with that same dongle - much nicer and more modern!
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Hi y'all
As we've woken up super early and have spoons to spare, Come and join us as we run the @PrideRadioGroup Net at 0200 UTC !!We'll be operating as net controller under VK3PRG
All are welcome !
Details on how join us can be found at https://prideradionetwork.weebly.com/network--repeater-info.html -
Oh, #Kenwood scheint mit dem TM-D750 an einem neuen Mobil-#Transceiver mit #APRS und #DSTAR zu arbeiten.
Scheint noch keine offizielle Seite zu geben, aber https://dl-nordwest.com/index.php/2025/02/08/kenwood-tm-d750-update-2025/ vermittelt wohl einen ersten Eindruck.
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#WINTERHEAT2025, in its 6th year, is a month-long VHF/UHF simplex event. Last Year over 785 participants made over 214,000 contacts. The event is open to all FCC licensed amateur radio operators.
The event will commence at 00:00:01UTC on January 1, 2025 and conclude at 23:59:59UTC on January 31, 2025.
All contacts shall be via FM-voice but can be either analog or digital (#Fusion, #DSTAR, #DMR). #WINTERHEAT ~ https://hamactive.com/index.php
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Braved the storm this afternoon to do some 24GHz (12.5mm wavelength) #MicrowaveRadio #AmateurRadio.
One contact made with Pete G1DFL over a 24KM path on #SSB and #DStar. 59+20dB both ways.
#Icom #IC705 IF and #Wavelab based transverter & 1.5w PA into a 30cm Andrew dish.
1.5w x 34.4dBi = 4131w ERP!
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Beginning Sun, Nov 24: RVers & Travelers Digital Voice Net Sundays beginning 2100 EST / 0200UTC ~ Kansas City Wide System. Brandmeister DMR, #YaesuSystemFusion & Wires-X, DStar, & Echolink:
• #BrandmeisterDMR talkgroup 313136
• #YaesuWiresX Room 28054 (AMERICA-KC-WIDE)
• Icom #DSTAR via XLX458/XRF458 Module A
• YSF32453 (US-KCWIDE)
• YSF28054 (XLX458)
• #Echolink node WØFH-L
• #HamshackHotline ext. 94077
• Listen #Broadcastify ~ https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/30282
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Found a good resource that explains how to set up your own YSF/C4FM, DMR and DSTAR reflector and register it as a public service with XLX under Linux. Let's see if I can get this running on one of my Raspberry Pi's and play around a bit with it. I also have an AMBE vocoder USB-Stick flying around, so I can make DSTAR cross mode work as well.
https://n5amd.com/digital-radio-how-tos/create-xlx-xrf-d-star-reflector/
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CW: Rant
And then there... is D-STAR.
Where you get to tell it the source, destination, and even input/output of your repeater! No screw you, we like it like this!
No double screw you, because you have to fuck around with the callsigns you're sending to actually perform operations.
NO REALLY I CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP
WHAT THE FUCK IS D-STAR DOING?!I stand by my comments in the screenshot. The rules for how D-STAR needs you to input your routing information literally sound ripped straight from the manual of a Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes mod.
#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #AmateurRadioDigitalCommunications #DigitalRadio #DSTAR #DMR #YSF #M17 #NXDN
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CW: Rant
Anyways. YSF is "Yaesu is special" by straight-up hijacking your repeater. Unlike the rest, YSF itself is just the modulation and protocol. You need to use an overlay (WIRES-X) to actually link things around. This is basically zero-configuration: you ask your radio for a list of rooms, you give it a room, it links the repeater site to that room, you're now bob's nephew.
This is just EchoLink. This is digital echolink.
YSF is also special because you don't give it a destination. You just give it your callsign as a source. I have yet to see a YSF radio that even asks for a destination callsign, maybe I'm reading the manuals wrong.
#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #AmateurRadioDigitalCommunications #DigitalRadio #DSTAR #DMR #YSF #M17 #NXDN
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CW: Rant, tangent
"reflector" is the word that D-STAR and M17 use to basically mean "master server." YSF (WIRES-X) has "rooms" which are individual groups you can link into (also called "reflectors" sometimes). The difference is that, linking into a reflector, you receive everything it gets there since it reflects it to all connected nodes. Master servers are like digital voice routers, deciding what nodes get what.
#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #AmateurRadioDigitalCommunications #DigitalRadio #DSTAR #DMR #YSF #M17 #NXDN
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CW: Rant
Anyways. A quick breakdown for the uninitiated:
All the commercial protocols, Project 25, DMR, and NXDN, just use talkgroups. for DMR it's 24 bits minus 2 (all-1 is "ALL CALL" and all-0 is invalid I think), for P25, I think it is too but I'm not sure, and for NXDN, it's 16 (65k). If you address your call to "group 18835" instead of "unit 3183914" then, one, everyone tuned to that starts decoding, and two, your local repeater site can hand that off (with your traffic) to a "master server" that will look in it's list of connected sites that also share that talkgroup ID, and will send them a copy of the data stream to re-broadcast.
M17 half-asses this, by like, base-40 encoding your callsign into just a number, with a few reserved numbers for echo test or repeater weirdness. It seems that
M17-xyzis the "callsign" you use for a "reflector" (basically a group)#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #AmateurRadioDigitalCommunications #DigitalRadio #DSTAR #DMR #YSF #M17 #NXDN