Omaha Digital Communications Group

We’re starting to see some new callsigns showing up on the DStarUsers website, which is pretty exciting evidence of a growing digital radio community. As co-gateway administrator (sharing duties with Corby Krick, K0SKW), I periodically check to see who’s showing up in the event we have new local users that haven’t been added to the gateway registration.

Registration is important for amateurs to be able to use the gateway linking features. It only takes a request that is initiated on this website (and a small fee of a couple of beers for Corby and I if you’re interested in our expedited request processing program) and the callsign will be added. As the request sends an email off to the two of us, we’ve been getting them processed rather quickly.

In case you’re curious what ham friends are already registered and part of our D-Star community, here’s what we presently have (in no particular order): K0CTU, K0MMR, K0NSA, K0SKW, N0EMA, W0BLM, N0MEQ, N0TRK, N0WJP, NG0K, W0AAI, W0JWS, W0NWS, W0JRS and WB0CMC.

Once you’re registered at one gateway, you’re registered throughout the D-Star system. In fact, you’re even set to use your DV Dongle if you add one and wish to link into the network from a PC and Internet connection. I’m planning to add one this fall for when I’m traveling for work and am in a location with no local gateways.