Listening in to a given repeater....

[G6KDF]

Hi there,

I'm wondering about D Star. Although licensed i'm more of a listener than a talker. With D Star is it possible to be in say London (UK) and listen to the chatter on say a repeater in Canada without contributing? I put that very badly....... erm.

What I mean is can you select (and hear) a repeater before hitting the PTT...?

Regards

G6KDF

[W6IRE]

I wonder about this too.  I just bought a 2820H but have not added the digital board yet.

So to echo G6KDF's comments, will D-Star allow me to:

1. Listen to conversations on my local repeater, just like an analog repeater?

2. Connect through the gateway to a distant repeater and "listen to the mail" and passively eavesdrop on digital QSOs?

Thanks in advance.

Richard  w6ire

[W6IRE]

Looks like the answer to the monitoring the distant repeater is no.

http://www.dstarusers.org/forums/index.php/topic,59.0.html

[n5ebw]

You are correct, sir.  You were just a little quicker to respond than me :-)

[kf4irc]

The only way to monitor is with a Dongle

[WY0X]

The only way to monitor is with a Dongle

The other option if your local admin allows users to link/unlink via dPlus, would simply be to link your local repeater to the remote one. 

You don't HAVE to talk, of course... then you could just "listen in", but they'd know you were there from the "Remote System Linked" announcement.

Nate WY0X
Server Admin, W0CDS - www.coloradodstar.org

[Pete AE5PL]

Important note: DVDongle users and therefore any type of DPlus linking (DVDongle uses DPlus at the gateway) only "hears" repeater/gateway activity, not local repeater activity.  If the local repeater users do not have the local gateway in their RPT2 setting, they will not be heard by DVDongle/DPlus users.  The repeater controller does prevent a remote station from interfering with a local ongoing transmission.

73,

Pete AE5PL