PNW-E Eastside WA c-Bridge Lost Internet
Yesterday (1-18), the Spokane data center went down for maintenance and as of this morning, is still down. This affects the Spokane area repeaters primarily. So use Lind, Ridgecrest, CDA…
CDA – Coeur d’Alene Repeater Update
As of this morning, the CDA repeater is back on network Rod, KC7AAD did some 44 net router magic with our Mikrotik router with a bit of help from the…
RT Systems Radio Programmer (RTS)
Here's a reminder as RTS just provided us our first month's earning from their referral and discount program. More information: on this website: RT Systems or in our RTS IO…
Repeater Activity Reporting
New repeater activity reporting has been added by Dave W7NCX. The enhancements were added to both the Repeater Listing and Repeater/MMDVM Servers Status pages. The data reporting now shows the…
Digital Monitor — Promiscuous Mode — RX-Scan Groups
If you have an interest in listening to activity on a repeater, there are levels of listening at the client radio level as well as on the desired repeater (or…
Wes – MMDVM Server Update
We have updated Wes to PNW-A and with more Talkgroups and Hold-Off timers. It should be a significant operational improvement for our membership who use hotspots. Suzy will soon get…
TIP: TXI and Group Call Hang Timer Settings
This is a reminder that the PNWDigital network operates with a 1 second group call hang timer. Anytones default to 3 seconds. That default forces you to wait 3 seconds.…
TIP: Is the Network Working (for me or you)?
The Parrot Echo Server is the best method for a station to test that the network is working end to end. While "Polly" has here obvious audio testing value, the…
c-Bridge PNW-E is down – Loss of Internet
PNW-E is offline, so most of the Eastern WA repeaters are off-network and in stand-alone mode. DNS for PNW-E is now pointed to PNW-S (Spare) and most talkgroups are connected…
c-Bridge – PNW-S / Geographical Diversification
As part of our longer term effort to increase our network dependability, we have added a 4th c-Bridge. While PNW-S was originally implemented to be a "hot spare" which can…