The guys in MA spurred me on to do this… I should have thought of it prior.
For 2013 at Dayton this year.
Expect NXDN on these frequencies.
VHF – 147.555
VHF – 145.28
UHF – 441.000
All simplex, most likely run no RAN (squelch set to carrier or none), however I know the guys from MA on the 145.28 will be on RAN 1
Have fun, I can’t make it this year due to family commitments.
Alan
Current list of linked systems, frequencies and RAN codes.
This afternoon, while I was at the IWCE, we brought up a second VHF repeater in Eastern Mass. I’ve updated the listing below to reflect that. I’m also currently working with a group in Pennsylvania that will be adding an Kenwood UHF repeater.
More the merrier!!! 🙂
After some issues with our prior provider, I just bit the bullet and got a slice of a virtual server online for real…
This is an image of the last 24 hours of bandwidth usage since I got all the repeaters and other reflectors moved over to it… :)…
We’ll see now what a standard month brings so we can gauge utilization.
When adding a Kenwood repeater to the network… 2 things are required.
a) you MUST turn off the Over the Air Alias on both the repeater and any users radios. If you don’t, there is a better than 50% chance that NO icom radio will hear your call which can be pretty frustrating when you’re on a WW linked system.
b) your repeater MUST run Very Narrow on the Digital side. Icom does not support 12.5khz digital, only 6.25 and so the 2 systems are not compatible unless they both are set for 6.25khz… this is a Kenwood repeater setting btw.
Ok, so it’s probably time that I created some form of table of who’s what, where :)…
We just brought up a new Kenwood site today on VHF and Norm in Tallahassee will be adding a UHF site to that a bit later.
Current list of linked systems, frequencies and RAN codes.
I realized that I could create a live stream off the WW NXDN network pretty easily. So I did :). If you want to listen in… Point your favorite player (winamp, etc) at http://w7qo.dyndns.org:8000/
It’s pretty quiet usually, but it should be crystal clear with no R2D2, no beeps, boops, etc
Enjoy
This morning we conducted a little test. A Kenwood Repeater, connected to a 4G Wireless router, all external IP addresses are private and will not accept incoming port forward requests.
We successfully connected the Kenwood to the WW NXDN network and carried on a conversation. :).
Stealth IP now works on the Kenwood NXREF…. yeah, no more VPN, no more static IP address, no more 15 IP limit. I think we’ve now shattered all the barriers …
Alan
Today we brought up a club in Turkey onto the WW NXDN network. This proved that we can do Kenwoods without a VPN, and it proved that we can make them work over multiple hops. I still think there is a gremlin or two to be worked out but Say Hi to The gang from Turkey.
Hi Alan,
Thank you very much for your great effort. I think we did :-))
I’m attaching the photos again. You can use them on your blog
(nxdninfo.com ) if you want.
The names and callsigns:
from left to right
Cengiz. TB2BBG.
Cemal TA2AW
Serhat TA2ANK
Serdar TA3AS
Tahir TA2T
Our Club name is ANTRAK.
I’ll always remember your help and your friendship.
Best Regards,
Serdar
So, over the last few days, i have been developing an application that will take the icom udp stream that connects repeaters together , and started decoding the stream on my pc, so far the process is working very well, and hope to have some pretty screen shots up soon. Its a windows application, and does require the ownership of a DVSI Dongle.
Oh, yeah, did i mention its windows ONLY.. sorry linux/mac guys 🙂 no java here.