WA7DMR Forum - Recent Topics

2024 Valley Camp

WQ7H — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:05:24 +0000

In a post with much information, it was mentioned that the dates for the 2024 Valley Camp was July 28-30 which is Sunday through Tuesday. Is this correct?

Thanks,

James WQ7H

PNW D-APRS / SMS site down?

Dale - N7KLT — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 23:31:39 +0000

Hi Admin group.

Was updating my HT over the weekend and noticed that the D-APRS wasn't getting to aprs.fi so tried to go to the server's site but, I get a page "Unable to connect."

Went looking through the "system status" page here but it's no longer listed at all as well as the link on this site for it's web page with the same results as my link.

Is this a known thing?

Dale McKenzie

N7KLT - 3120771 / 3120776

RFinder "Phablet"

Clay — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:23:53 +0000

just got an email from RFinder pitching their M6 "phablet". An Android tablet with DMR radio. Pretty pricey and even at that it "looks too good to be true".

Has anyone had any experience with these folks?

Hello, new to forum and new tech.

Doug — Tue, 09 May 2023 21:32:41 +0000

hello, I name is Doug Miller. i just got my tech license and working on General. Just joined Lewis co ARES. My DMR radio is a Btech DMR 6x2pro that I have not started to get into the programming yet. (need to read more before i start that)my other radios are portable baofeng UV82 and UV9 and a Btech UV 25x4 that is mounted in the truck and just needs programming.

I am in the middle of putting up a 2m antenna on the garage, I put the mounts up yesterday, I have the cable rg58, and I have to get a hole drilled through the wall for the cable.

Oldies Net Troubles

Darryl — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 22:03:33 +0000

I am new to PNWDigital, and DMR. I am trying to figure stuff out and can use some help. I have tried to listen in to the Oldies Net a couple of times on Cougar Mountains UHF, talk group Washington 2. I have my handheld in the window and my base station up and programed correctly, but never hear a thing on either. My setup is Bellevue/Cougar UHF, 441.2875 removed link , CC1, Slot 2, ID 103153. What am I doing wrong.

Thanks
Darryl

Ruston Repeater from Gig Harbor

Lindsey — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 05:35:59 +0000

Sitting in gig harbor trying to hit the parrot talk group on the ruston repeater with an Anytone 878 Plus. Getting a "Repeater Not Found" error message. I feel like I should be well in range. Images of my settings below. Anything obviously wrong?

Channel Settings:

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Talkgroup Settings:

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Parrot Issues

Dave - W7NCX — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 21:05:08 +0000

We had a battle of the parrots going on recently. Polly is our primary parrot, and Toucan Sam is available if Polly is resting. After Sam was recently updated, he didn't properly detect that Polly was on duty, and tried to take control.

I've corrected the programming on Sam, and he should return to normal duty--sleeping until Polly actually takes a break.

Sorry for the redundancy and repetitiveness...

Dave/W7NCX

PNWDigital MMDVM and Servers Assignment and Information

Mike - NO7RF — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:54:59 +0000

*** PNWDigital MMDVM and Servers Assignment and Information ***
revised: 2-20-21 no7rf, posted in Admin's Forum 4-19-22

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c-Bridge / ID Radio ID Peer Device Notes
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PNW-D / m40d 14315379 MMDVM NCS Peer first in the series
PNW D / m40d 14315380 spare for m40d

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Current Peer Devices not using the new scheme - Change assignment in time

c-Bridge / ID Curr RID New RID Peer Device Notes
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PNW-A / m47a 3153999 11315393 SMS-APRS-TS1-KF7EEL c-Bridge loop or independents
PNW-A / m47a 11315394 spare

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PNW-D / m25d 311873 14315349 RexX
PNW-D / m25d 14315350 spare

PNW-D / m26d 4315387 14315351 Parrot TS1
PNW-D / m26d

PNW-D / m27d 14315353 spare, no current Wes East
PNW-D / m27d (pnw-b) 14315354 Wes (West) currently on PNW-B as: 1315384

PNW-D / m39d 4315352 14315377 VU Meter W7NCX
PNW-D / m39d 14315378 spare

PNW-D / m40d 4315386 14315379 MM-NCS-W7NCX Net Control Operators access only
PNW-D / m40d 14315380 spare

PNW-D / m42d (pnw-b) 14315383 Peter currently on PNW-B as: 1315381
PNW-D / m42d 14315383 spare

PNW-D / m43d 4315399 14315385 SMS-APRS-TS1-KF7EEL c-Bridge loop or independents
PNW-D / m43d 14315386 spare

PNW-D / m47d 310587 14314193 Otis
PNW-D / m47d 14314194 spare

PNW D / m49d 4315373 14315397 Bridget East
PNW D / m49d 4315383 14315398 Bridget West

PNW D / m50d 4315380 14315399 Suzy East
PNW D / m50d 4315300 14315300 Suzy West

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PNW-E / m49e 3153999 15315397 SMS-APRS-TS1-KF7EEL c-Bridge loop or independants
PNW-E / m49e 15315398

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The theory behind the RID schemes:

We have at our disposal up to 16777215 as our maximum available RID's per the c-Bridge limitation.
We currently are using a mish mash of 7 digit RID's type of scheme.
We are currently using the leading digits of 1, 4 or 5 plus the 4 digit state ID plus 2 digits for assignments.
PNW-A is 1, PNW-D is 4, PNW-E is 5 // 0 is reserved for system, 3 and 6 are reserved for c-Bridge expansion.
Example 4 3153 yy indicates a device on PNW-D, server in Washington and 2 digits for that managers assignment.

The new scheme proposes 8 digits, a leading 1, then 1-6 for the c-Bridge, 4 for the state and 2 variable digits
Example: 1 4 3153 yy (143153yy) which would be PNW-D, server in WA and 2 variable assignments.

The leading 1 does not change leaving 0-7 as the second digits for c-Bridge assignments and less than 16777214.

10 could be system devices not associated with any c-Bridge
11, 14 and 15 which we currently have c-Bridges in use.
12 is the old PNW-B currently about to shed it's last peers and be relicensed for secondary uses
12 could be the old PNW-B about to go away and be relicensed as something for a different use.
13 would be the next c-Bride we add to the network
16 would be the next c-Bridge in order
17 would be the last c-Bridge we could add in this scheme and not likely we would ever get there.

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