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AC1LC

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Please educate me on XLX
« on: February 26, 2023, 06:42:34 AM »

I was poking around on my clubs website and found that we have a multimode digital repeater that I can probably hit.  I'm running an Anytone 578 and use analog and DMR through my vertical antenna.  But, I also have a Pi-star hotspot that I have set up so I can cross platform from DMR to YSF and TGIF.  When I started looking at the information about the multimode repeater it lists XLX as a reflector.  I think that means I can add Dstar to the modes that I can use through the hotspot but I don't totally understand the entire XLX setup and I know nothing about Dstar.  I'm comfortable with the DMR talkgroups and YSF rooms...but how does Dstar work and how do I access them through the hotspot?

Better yet, anyone know of any websites that explains XLX and Dstar so a dinosaur can understand it?

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K6AER

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Re: Please educate me on XLX
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2023, 07:28:18 PM »

Why not contact your club for information and help?
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G4AON

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Re: Please educate me on XLX
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2023, 01:45:49 AM »

Google and a couple of minutes will give you the answer.

Basically XLX reflectors are combining different types of digital systems together on one channel. For example, if I connect my D-Star hand held to D-Star reflector DCS005Y, it becomes connected to the FreeDMR Yorkshire talkgroup 23530. In the internet someone has configured a server to decode/encode the audio and connect the DCS005 reflectors to various FreeDMR talkgroups. To further confuse matters, FreeDMR talkgroups use the same numbering scheme as Brandmeister, on completely different systems.

The encoding/decoding (transcoding) tends to further restrict the often poor audio. While it works, it falls into the category of a solution looking for a problem…

http://xlx005.freedmr.uk/index.php shows a UK cross connection.

73 Dave
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AC1LC

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Re: Please educate me on XLX
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2023, 05:50:30 AM »

Google and a couple of minutes will give you the answer.

Basically XLX reflectors are combining different types of digital systems together on one channel. For example, if I connect my D-Star hand held to D-Star reflector DCS005Y, it becomes connected to the FreeDMR Yorkshire talkgroup 23530. In the internet someone has configured a server to decode/encode the audio and connect the DCS005 reflectors to various FreeDMR talkgroups. To further confuse matters, FreeDMR talkgroups use the same numbering scheme as Brandmeister, on completely different systems.

The encoding/decoding (transcoding) tends to further restrict the often poor audio. While it works, it falls into the category of a solution looking for a problem…

http://xlx005.freedmr.uk/index.php shows a UK cross connection.

73 Dave


Thanks Dave....sounds like more trouble than what it's worth!  Using the hotspot to transmit cross platform from DMR to YSF is relatively easy.  D-star sounds like more of effort from what I've been able to find out.  Appreciate the input.  73
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