1. November 27, 2010 Ottawa D-STAR Symposium by The VA3ODG System – What Is Rick Bandla VE3CVG

2. 2 View from the Roof - N

3. 3 View from the Roof - E

4. 4 View from the Roof - S

5. 5 View from the Roof - W

6. 6 System Block Diagram - 1

7. 7 System Block Diagram - 2

8. 8 Antennas – VHF UHF and 23cm DV

9. 9 Antennas – 23cm High Speed Data

10. 10 The Equipment Cabinet

11. 11 VHF DV Repeater Standard Icom ID-RP2000V May benefit from internal cable upgrade May benefit from PA to increase power to 100W but maintenance issues increase

12. 12 VHF Filters

13. 13 UHF DV Repeater Standard Icom ID-RP4000V May benefit from internal cable upgrade May benefit from PA to increase power to 100W but maintenance issues increase

14. 14 23cm DV Repeater Standard Icom ID-RP2V May benefit from internal cable upgrade May benefit from improved receive pre-amp Would benefit from added external filtering

15. 15 23cm High Speed Data Provides 128kb data Standard Icom ID- RP2D (contains ID-1) This is a simplex function like wi-fi Clear path between antennas is essential Users should use small yagi (vertical) or helix User should be stationary, mobile doesn’t really work

16. 16 Gateway Computer - SW OS is CentOS5.4 (linux) Application Software – Icom G2 – dPlus – MonLink – dPlus report – DPRS – Icom Apache (httpd) – Standard Apache (httpd) – ircDDB – dextra

17. 17 Gateway Computer 1 - HW Shared LCD screen IBM Thinkcenter S50/S51 SFF – CPU Intel 2.8GHz Pentium 4 – Memory 1024MB PC-3200 – HDD 80GB SATA – Video On board Intel 82915G – Sound On board Soundmax – USB 8 x USBv2 – Optical DVD-ROM – Eth0 On board Gigabit Broadcom – Eth1 add-on 10/100 – Serial Com1, Com2 – Parallel LPT1 Good machine – may benefit from more memory

18. 18 Gateway Computer 2 - HW Backup machine to #1 Shared LCD screen Homebrew Tower w Intel D850 MB – CPU Intel 1.7GHz Pentium 4 – Memory 512MB – HDD 160GB SATA WD1600JB – Video GeForce MX4000 128Mb 3D – Sound On board – USB 4 x USBv2 – Philips CD/DVD R/W – Eth0 On board – Eth1 add-on 10/100 – Serial Com1, Com2 – Parallel LPT1 Adequate BUT should be replaced with same as machine #1

19. 19 Internet Feed(s) We have 2 internet connections: – RF last mile  Fast down, medium up  Reasonably reliable but subject to wx conditions – Hotel feed from Y  Very fast up and down  Very reliable  Inbound ports are blocked (typical hotel strategy)  Possible opportunity

20. 20 Internet - Looking to VA3YH from Y

21. 21 Internet Dish at VA3YH

22. 22 Internet - Installing Dish at VA3YH

23. 23 Internet Dish at the YMCA

24. 24 Web Pages There are many, many informative pages on our own web site – http://www.wc-arc.org/oardg/ – http://www.wc-arc.org/oardg/user/index.html http://www.wc-arc.org/oardg/user/index.html Manuals and tips at http://www.dstar.ca/ http://status.ircddb.net/ for status on ircDDB http://www.ircddb.net/ for info about ircDDB http://www.ircddb.net/ https://www.dutch-star.eu/index.aspx

25. 25 The End