[SMCARA] D-Star RT-Systems S/W hints and kinks...

[Dave Q]

I also have both.  A couple of things I have found that help me.

Read the "Easy Editing in the Grid" section in the Help menu.  That has
saved me thousands of clicks when changing a bunch of cells like adding
different entries into a bank or skipping a bunch of frequencies from a
scan list.

In the "DR Memories" I move the repeaters from Maryland to the top of the
list followed by Virginia.  That way when you select the repeater list on
the radio they are at the top and I don't have to scroll through the rest.
Of course you could remove any that you don't need.  Like I got rid of
everything from Africa, Asia, Canada, etc.  I also pared down many
repeaters from the different states.  Also renamed N3PX to be in Hollywood
rather than LP City along with the lat/long provided by Tom.

I also downloaded the repeater list from dstarinfo.com and it had all the
Maryland stations.  There is a link there to download a repeater list file
specifically for "ID-31, ID-51, ID-7100, ID-5100, and ID-51+ list of
repeaters used by the *Near Repeater* function."

I have old eyes so some of the info on the radio display get pretty hard to
read.  I do program many of the 2M and 70cm simplex into the radio.  I cut
and paste the frequency into the "Name" column and then instead of the
little font size I get the larger one I can see.  This works on radios like
the 880 and 2820 also.

I'm hooked on RT Systems software but have no involvement with them other
than using their products.  One other thing about RT Systems; their cables
work out of the box period.  No hunting for drivers or other Windoze crap.

73s
--Dave  W3DLQ

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Tom Shelton <gl1800winger at verizon.net>
wrote:

> As many of you know, I'm back on D-Star with both an ID-5100A in the car
> and
> an ID-51A plus HT.  I ordered the RT Systems S/W for both radios and after
> having used them both have a couple of notes.
>
> For the ID-5100A:  The N3PX Repeater's location is not correct in the "DR
> Memories" database.  Using Google Maps, I determined the correct location
> (Hollywood Fire Department) - you'll need to edit the location to: Latitude
> = 38<degrees>20'53"N and Longitude = 076<degrees>34'44"W.
>
> For the ID-51A:  First, make sure you install the version of S/W for the
> ID-51A Plus.  Again, in the "DR Memories" database (even after ensuring
> everything was updated), only 3 repeaters show up for Maryland - according
> to the D-StarUsers.org web-site, there are 10 repeaters in Maryland.  Add
> the additional repeaters to the DR Memories database.  Assuming that this
> is
> a more endemic error, if you're traveling to another state/country - you
> might want to update the database for where you are traveling.
>
> For both programs - for communicating (either send or receive) with your
> radio, Save your programming and close the program.  Do a restart on your
> computer.  Once you restart, plug in the USB side of your cable, Start the
> program and ensure that the saved program you want is loaded, then select
> communicate and follow the instructions.  I kept getting an error, telling
> me to make sure the cable was firmly in the USB port (wasn't recognizing
> the
> USB cable).  This was the only way I could make things work.
>
> If you have both the ID-5100A and the ID-51A software, you can cut and
> paste
> between the two sets of databases.
>
> Any other hints and kinks???
>
>
>
> Tom Shelton, ND3N
>
>
>
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