Rick,

Other than misspelling AMSAT, the subject of my earlier message gave those details. It has been held on a D-Star reflector, REF009C. Several Arizona D-Star repeaters are normally tied into this reflector. Other repeaters can be used to reach the reflector. If you have some sort of hotspot at home, or use a dongle that doesn't require a radio to access D-Star systems, you can connect directly to the reflector.

Endaf N6UTC was the driving force to get this informal chat session started a few months ago, for those who use D-Star. We started using the reflector REF009C, mainly due to Endaf and I chatting on there. It just happened to be the reflector that my openSpot hotspot is usually on, and is hosted in Tucson. We haven't run it as a formal net, preferring to just talk about satellite-related stuff among whoever happens to show up.

If you use D-Star, you can check the status of the REF009C reflector - including repeaters that are currently linked to this reflector - at:

http://ref009.dstargateway.org/

Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK

On Sunday, March 18, 2018, Rick Tejera saguaroastro@cox.net wrote:

Is this an HF net, echolink or IRLP? Frequencies or nodes?

Rick Tejera K7TEJ Saguaro Astronomy Club www.saguaroastro.org Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club www.w7tbc.org

*From: *Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) amsat-bb@wd9ewk.net *Sent: *Sunday, March 18, 2018 19:47 *To: *AMSAT amsat-bb@amsat.org *Subject: *[amsat-bb] Unofficial AMSAST roundtable on D-Star REF009C - NOW!

Hi!

After a couple of weeks of no activity, we are trying to get

back to the Sunday evening AMSAT roundtable we had been doing

for a few months. With the shift to daylight time last weekend,

we moved the start time of the roundtable to 7.30pm PDT (10.30pm

EDT, or Monday 0230 UTC). A few of us are on there now, and we

will try this starting time to see how it works.

73!

Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK

http://www.wd9ewk.net/

Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK

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