I can't. The owner won't give out permissions to log in.
There are a couple of possibilities here; an actual registration site might not exist or it may have been shut down because the gateway software was changed and the person that did it didn't keep the registration stuff active.Not sure I am understanding your situation.
You should be able to log in to the Dakota site where you first registered not to re-register, but to review your personal data that was created/assigned for the original registration. Next to the personal data tab is the terminal tab. Are you saying the terminal tab is not present?
I registered @ Nebraska D*star (Nebraska Gateway Registration » Nebraska D-Star Club) so I don't know about Dakota... but the owner there won't give out any log in details to let me change my own terminals. He'd supposedly do it for people but I haven't been able to get a response. Trying to figure out what my options are.
If they won't give you access to admin your terminals, email "Myron" (vicepresident@nedstar.org) and request that they delete your gateway account.I can't. The owner won't give out permissions to log in.
I don't understand why they would care. If someone wants to log in and fill up all their terminals, it doesn't affect me as an administrator at all...I suspect some are doing this to keep users from registering "unnecessary" terminal entries.
Chris,
At the risk of taking this thread a little off topic I ask the purpose of the terminal tab and what I would use it for? I have seen it before, but really never thought about it until this thread.
Thanks!
To be honest, it's mostly an Icom invention to take up space in the database; callsign routing (which is part of the specification, but not used much) doesn't need any terminals to work. The main purpose so far has been to allocate IP addresses to specific users for routing purposes, though it's not really needed, as stated above.
If they won't give you access to admin your terminals, email "Myron" (vicepresident@nedstar.org) and request that they delete your gateway account.
No problem, terminals represent the various radios you use. You need to have one terminal (usually your callsign with a space in the Initial field) so when you set MYCALL to your callsign with the spaces after it the D-STAR system properly routes other calls to your "terminal" (a.k.a. radio).To be honest, it's mostly an Icom invention to take up space in the database; callsign routing (which is part of the specification, but not used much) doesn't need any terminals to work. The main purpose so far has been to allocate IP addresses to specific users for routing purposes, though it's not really needed, as stated above.
No you don't; it's been proven on the Quadnet ircDDB network that callsign routing can be done without a terminal or any sort of registration being done by the user. They have even proven that the user callsign can be used, with a suffix letter in the 8th space, as a node callsign and callsign routing functions properly. Registration has never been needed to access either DExtra or DCS reflectors like it has been for DPlus, including using dongle based applications to access those reflectors.No problem, terminals represent the various radios you use. You need to have one terminal (usually your callsign with a space in the Initial field) so when you set MYCALL to your callsign with the spaces after it the D-STAR system properly routes other calls to your "terminal" (a.k.a. radio).
Personally, I have my "space" terminal, as well as a "D" terminal (for data). This allows me to have my ID-1 connected to a repeater doing data work (with my callsign "KU7PDX D" set on it) and if others try callsign routing to "KU7PDX " it won't interrupt anything going on there.
A lot of D-STAR Gateways are concurrently running ircDDB Gatways (including the one I administrate) and that one doesn't require the terminals to be set, however then you lose the standard D-STAR routing if the terminals aren't set.
It is kinda confusing, but if you think about your radio just being another IP terminal (like a computer) it can help make more sense.
I did state that ircDDB is one of the systems that doesn't require registration...No you don't; it's been proven on the Quadnet ircDDB network that callsign routing can be done without a terminal or any sort of registration being done by the user. They have even proven that the user callsign can be used, with a suffix letter in the 8th space, as a node callsign and callsign routing functions properly. Registration has never been needed to access either DExtra or DCS reflectors like it has been for DPlus, including using dongle based applications to access those reflectors.
True, but the wording of your post implied that it (registration) was needed to do routing; I was just pointing out that it's not. All that is needed is the target callsign and the originating repeater and gateway callsign information; the database knows where the user was last heard and can route accordingly.I did state that ircDDB is one of the systems that doesn't require registration...