your call

[ki8as]

Why do I have to put a call sign in your call in digital voice mode???

[n5ebw]

To tell it where to route your traffic to.  If you are just talking on your local repeater, just leave it as CQCQCQ.

[ewoodrick]

In many cases, you don't.

Whenever you are talking to users on your local repeater, the Your Call (UR) is not required and should be set to CQCQCQ.

But when you try to talk to users on another repeater, the use of UR tells the system where to route your packets.

Ed WA4YIH

[n5ebw]

Yeah.  What he said....which is what I said   

I think, actually, what you meant to say was, "Most of the time", instead of "In many cases", since, really, theres only one or two cases for using "CQCQCQ".  These cases (Local node only and cross band) just happen to be the ones most users will utilize more than others.

[W6GRC]

Question,

If your talking threw distant repeater does everyone hear conversation or only the your call sign.
Kf6itl
K6cho   c
K6cho   g
W6grc
Does  everyone hear the conversation or just the ham being called on both systems?

I hope that made sense

[n5ebw]

Everyone hears your conversation.

[WY0X]

Everyone hears your conversation.

Unless THEY are using one of the digital squelch modes, or callsign squelch.  :-)

Nate WY0X