Icom ID-5100A Full Instruction Manual - Page 96

Previous view 6 D-STAR OPERATION Troubleshooting To communicate through the repeater, your signal must access to the repeater. When your signal accesses your local repeater, but it is not sent to the destination repeater, the repeater replies with an status message. PROBLEM POSSIBLE CAUSE SOLUTION REF. After you transmit, no signal • The repeater setting is wrong. • Select the correct repeater. p. 6-18 is returned from the repeat- • Your transmission did not reach the re- • Correct the repeater frequency, fre- - er. (No S-meter indication) peater. quency offset, or duplex setting. • Wait until you are closer to the repeater - and try it again. • Try to access another repeater. - After you transmit, the re- • The call was successfully sent, but no • Wait for a while, and try it again. - peater replies 'UR?' and its station immediately replied. call sign. After you transmit, the re- • Your call sign has not been correctly • Make sure that your call sign is correctly p. 6-5 peater replies 'RX' or 'RPT?' set into your transceiver. set into your transceiver. and the access repeater's • Your call sign has not been registered • Register your call sign on a trust sever p. 6-7 call sign. on a trust sever. through a D-STAR repeater, or confirm • Your call sign is not recognized at the the registration of the call sign. repeater. After you transmit, the ac- • The call sign of the destination repeat- • Correctly set the destination repeater - cess repeater replies 'RPT?' er is wrong. call sign. and its call sign. After you transmit, the re- • The repeater cannot connect to the • Check the repeater setting. - peater replies 'RPT?' and destination repeater. call sign of the destination • The repeater is busy. • Wait for a while, and try it again. - repeater. Even holding down [DR], the • There is no repeater list in your trans- • Reload the repeater list using the SD p. 6-35 DR screen does not appear. ceiver. card. • Enter the Repeater list data directly into p. 7-22 to p. the transceiver. 7-24 Even holding down [RX>CS], • The transceiver did not correctly re- • Try it again, after the transceiver has - the received call sign does ceive the call sign data. correctly received the call sign. not set to the destination call • When a received signal is weak, or a sign to make a call back. signal is received during scanning, the call sign may not be received correctly. In that case appears and error beeps sound, and a reply call cannot be made. A Local area call can be • Your call sign (MY) has not been regis- • Register your call sign (MY) on a D- p. 6-7 made, but the Gateway call tered on a D-STAR repeater. STAR repeater, or confirm the registra- or destination station call tion of the call sign. cannot be made. "L" appears on the LCD. • While receiving data through the Inter- • Wait a while, and try it again. - net, some packets may be lost due to a When the transceiver receives cor- network error. rupted data, and misidentifies it is as packet loss, "L" appears, even if it is a Local area call. "DV" and "FM" icons alter- • While in the DV mode, an FM signal is • Wait a while, and try it again. nately blink. received. p. 7-11 6-16