Looking into getting a dstar radio and have a question about connecting to reflectors.
Initially I thought connecting to a reflector via a repeater was different to other repeater linking, irlp etc, but if I understand correct, a dstar repeater that is linked to a reflector is linked for all users of the repeater, so everything you transmit via the repeater goes to the reflector, and reflector traffic is retransmitted by the repeater too. Is this correct?
So if I'm interested in using a particular reflector but it's not the one that the reflector is currently linked to, if I follow the instructions to change the linking, then this changes it for everyone else on the repeater too, is this correct? What's the correct procedure for changing the reflector? Do you announce on the repeater that you want to change and if no-one objects, make the change? I'm wondering this because it seems if I'm just monitoring the repeater for the reflector traffic but not transmitting, I imagine I wouldn't want someone else to come in and change the connected reflector at random? How is this usually handled?
If I find another repeater that's connected to the reflector I'm interested in accessing, is it possible to connect to this other repeater via my local repeater so I can receive and transmit to this other reflector? And does this approach impact anyone else on my local repeater?
Thanks! Kevin KK6DCT
Initially I thought connecting to a reflector via a repeater was different to other repeater linking, irlp etc, but if I understand correct, a dstar repeater that is linked to a reflector is linked for all users of the repeater, so everything you transmit via the repeater goes to the reflector, and reflector traffic is retransmitted by the repeater too. Is this correct?
So if I'm interested in using a particular reflector but it's not the one that the reflector is currently linked to, if I follow the instructions to change the linking, then this changes it for everyone else on the repeater too, is this correct? What's the correct procedure for changing the reflector? Do you announce on the repeater that you want to change and if no-one objects, make the change? I'm wondering this because it seems if I'm just monitoring the repeater for the reflector traffic but not transmitting, I imagine I wouldn't want someone else to come in and change the connected reflector at random? How is this usually handled?
If I find another repeater that's connected to the reflector I'm interested in accessing, is it possible to connect to this other repeater via my local repeater so I can receive and transmit to this other reflector? And does this approach impact anyone else on my local repeater?
Thanks! Kevin KK6DCT