How To Register Our Dstar Repeater As A Gateway

British Columbia Frequency Modulation Communications Association

D-STAR Registration

Apply this page equally a step-by-step guideline for registering on the BCFMCA D-STAR Gateway.

Showtime Time Registration

Go to https://dstar.bcfmca.bc.ca/Dstar.do, the registration page.

To register on the arrangement for the first time, you will click on "Register".

This takes yous to the new user registration screen:

Fill out the information on this screen. Y'all will need to read through the User Agreement and select the "Aye" button. Your callsign must exist in UPPER case or yous will get an error when y'all submit the form. Please apply a valid email address so we can notify you lot when your registration has been canonical.

When you lot fill out all the boxes, click "OK".

You will be prompted by a confirmation box:

Click "OK".

If the registration is successful, you should get a completion screen that looks like:

At this point, an email is sent to the administrators notifying them of a new registration. It may take a few days for them to get in and approve it. You volition exist sent an email to the address you provided in your registration when the account has been approved.

If yous try logging in and your registration has not been approved however, you will get a screen like this:

Add Personal Data

Once your registration has been approved, and you received an email from the administrators stating such, you volition demand to login and register at least one radio before you tin use the gateway. This is a mandatory step that must exist completed before yous will be able to use the gateway.

Log into the gateway using your callsign (in UPPER case) and your password:

That should get you lot to the main screen. Click on the link under the Logout push chosen "Personal Information". This will take y'all to the Personal Data screen:

On this screen, you can alter your countersign or email address, if desired. More importantly, you will need to make full in the information for each of the radios you lot wish to utilise through the D-STAR gateway.

To register a radio...

Click the tick box on the left of a blank registration line (ie the box to the left of ane.)
Click on the "Initial" box, and tap your space bar to put a infinite in this box (unless y'all are Certain you know what your are doing). Most users merely need a infinite in the Initial box
DO NOT click the "AccessPoint" box

When you are done filling in the form, it should look something like this:

Click "Update" and you will run across a confirmation box pop up:

Click "OK" and your data volition be sent to the server. You should become the following box popular up if the information y'all submitted was accustomed without error:

You lot will then encounter that the line you just edited is at present greyed out:

Y'all can at present add more than radios, or logout. If y'all logout, you volition get a confirmation box:

Clicking "OK" will log you out and return yous to the login screen.

At this point, y'all are now registered on the gateway, and can utilize your radio to make calls to other D-STAR systems.

Don't forget that the "MYCALL" in your radio MUST be the same every bit the callsign you registered with on the gateway. For advanced users, your "MYCALL" besides needs to include (in the eighth position of the MYCALL field) the character you put in the "Initial" box when you registered that terminal.

Also, don't forget to put VE7RAG G in the "RPT2" field of your radio to route your telephone call through the gateway. VE7RAG One thousand also needs to be in "RPT2" if you wish to utilise other features similar DPLUS linking, reflectors, D-PRS, etc.

Practiced luck and welcome to the world of D-STAR!

ID-1 Users

If y'all are registering and trying to get an ID-1 online, you will detect further information here.