Well after finely sorting the radio out and connecting to the local repeater GB7SF in Sheffield I'm beginning to think its a dead duck. I have spoken to one local on the D-Star repeater and that's it, I have called out on all the reflectors without not one person coming back to me. All I get is the local repeater telling me link connected. So does anyone use it or is it dead in the water?

ref001c is always busy

I have my radio set in memory 001 as REF001AL through GB7SF and it says linked so i'm linked to REF001 and called past three days but here nobody and nobody calls back am I still doing it wrong?

You are being connected to REF001A not REF001C as your link should be "REF001CL" Shouting on 1A will get you nowhere.

How can you tell?

Ok will change it to REF001C and see what that brings, I was just doing as the info says on GB7SF ref info, thanks

listening helps also dashbored when connected

Last Heard
Callsign User Message Last TX on Time
M0TXP PADDY LIVERPOOL UK C 2015/04/26 13:43:59
G0VRM Andy (CCS 5775) C 2015/04/26 13:40:13
G3GJA Clive,East Yorkshire C 2015/04/26 13:33:11
2E0DWZ MARK NORFOLK UK C 2015/04/26 13:32:06
ON3RVL Andy (CCS 5775) C 2015/04/26 13:28:23
G1TIK Denyse ID- 51E plus C 2015/04/26 13:22:35
9Z4QA NOEL IMAC & DVAP C 2015/04/26 13:14:34
JR1FVK TUCK/TOKYO/JAPAN C 2015/04/26 13:11:56
GI4OHH DSTAR/DVMEGA SYSTEM C 2015/04/26 13:10:31
WB3GSN KURT IN DELAWARE C 2015/04/26 13:07:11
N1DL KARL IN NAPLES, FL C 2015/04/26 12:59:55
KA5JNJ Bruce/Farmington,NM A 2015/04/26 12:53:20
M1BFX JON ROMFORD ESSEX UK C 2015/04/26 12:52:30
PC2EBE EPPIE QTH DRACHTEN C 2015/04/26 12:42:58
ON4PN 1255 digitalvoice.be C 2015/04/26 12:42:37
VK6SP BARRY PERTH AU C 2015/04/26 12:36:35
VK6SKY M IAN - DSTAR FAN C 2015/04/26 12:29:28
N9TV N9TV / JOHN ID-31A C 2015/04/26 12:26:57
ON4AIM C 2015/04/26 12:15:52
2E0MJJ john, Staffordshire. C 2015/04/26 12:14:05
VE3EI C 2015/04/26 12:13:11
MW0RBL Bob South Wales (UK} C 2015/04/26 12:12:38
G1NHW keith essex uk C 2015/04/26 12:01:26
GM0MRJ Maxis, Scotland. C 2015/04/26 12:00:54
K3MMB MIKE/ MARYLAND C 2015/04/26 11:43:11
DL1ESZ Stefan RATINGEN 6072 C 2015/04/26 11:42:25
M0HLB Linked to DCS005 B C 2015/04/26 11:42:05
GI0BFO JOHNSTON IN BELFAST C 2015/04/26 11:41:36
2E0DDD C 2015/04/26 11:37:01
KB3CAY Alan/Damascus Md. C 2015/04/26 11:36:32
M6NAE NEIL MANCHESTER ICOM C 2015/04/26 11:35:56
G0OOD Tim / DV DONGLE C 2015/04/26 11:31:39
MI6PWR PAUL,OMAGH,N.IRELAND C 2015/04/26 11:31:33
G1MTC DAVE BLACKPOOL C 2015/04/26 11:17:07
G0PTD ALAN_STOKE_UK C 2015/04/26 11:15:51
EA1GIZ Eamon Coruna Spain C 2015/04/26 11:14:43
2W0IAO Ant from S.Wales uk C 2015/04/26 11:05:58
MW0MAU Icom ID-51E C 2015/04/26 10:58:11
M0CEC Geoff-Liverpool-UK C 2015/04/26 10:37:37

So how do you listen?

UR-REF001CL
RPT1-(your local repeater so the warring ton one would be GB7WC BL) note blank space in the 6th position and B being 70cm (c is 2m)
RPT2-(same as above but in the 7th position put G for gateway)
MY-put your callsign here/4 digit like 7100
Press ptt and if you hear system linked or the likes you are in, put UR back to cqcqcq or it will tell you everytime you key up you are linked, give a call out(sometimes it is quiet) dont forget the minus 9 meg split for uhf and the 600kh split for 2m
If you have a dvap/dvmega your callsign replaces the repeater in RPT1 and RPT2
Paddy

Thanks paddy, I jumped the gun bloody moaning but not got it set right still, big learning curve for me and will try again later on.

Please report back with your findings, watching with interest

duh.. with a dstar radio thru a repeater or with dvmega

The L in the 8th position is for link
To unlink from the reflector/repeater, in UR have the first 7th spaces blank and U in the 8th position
When you press the ptt it will tell you it is unlinked, then put it back to cqcqcq then you can use the repeater for local use
Paddy

Both
Paddy

At least the person who replied before you has a few grey cells.

People like you stop the hobby advancing, bet you climb back in your shell.