Home  DSTAR Reflector Etiquette
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
The DStar community is in
the alpha stages of developing reflector "etiquette", and sometimes
things are a mess, so be patient. While the gateway calls are different, the substance
of that post applies completely to us. When operating a gateway linked
to a reflector (and you don't always know right away if that is the
case - we are working on that), consider the following suggestions:
1) keep your transmissions shorter, perhaps 15 to 30 seconds maximun due
to the possibility you may be colliding with another station., and if
so, the longer you talk, the longer no one can hear.
2) always direct someone else whom you know to be listening to "take it"
from you otherwise two or three people key up at once.
3) pause before you transmit 3 to 5 seconds, even if you were directed
to transmit by someone else. A third party may need to get in.
4) after three to five transmissions, while you are in control, ask if
anyone else wants in and pause 10 or so seconds to give them a chance.
5) if a dongle links in and tries to talk to you, ask them to disconnect
and reconnect directly to the reflector. Otherwise they won't hear
anyone on the reflector although they will still hear you.
These are just ideas to mull. As you listen, you can tell some folks
don't do any of these...
Take some time to watch this and listen to the repeater/gateway at the
same time. You can tell when a reflector is linked very easily by the
appearance of a reflector "call". Every time a transmission is made (as
long as you have set RPT2=KE5KAF^G a record of that will
appear - including kerchunks, hi hi.
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