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The Islanders Amateur Radio Group at Hilton Head Island installed a new D-STAR repeater on the Island this week. Congratulations to Eddie King, N4HEK, the repeater trustee and the team in Hilton Head/Bluffton. Also, a special thanks to Rick, N1RCW, for his Allstar expertise. The D-STAR repeater is connected to our URF517A Reflector giving us wider D-STAR RF coverage and more fun! The fulltime Allstar node is now 50076 and for Echolink N4HEK-R. A connection to the Bluffton 440 machine will be made for Nets. ...

The Ham.Live Net Logging software was taken offline at the end of June 2026. However, a couple of weeks prior to that, the developer kindly made his software Open Source using the MIT license. As a result the Colorado Digital Group installed an instance of the net logging software and have made it available for use. They also started making improvements which has been great. The RadioSC-based nets used this new software for a few weeks with good results. Netcontrol.live is a good system and many are using it and I’ll continue to use it for the nets I like to attend. ...

The URF517 Reflector has been upgraded with a change to the functionality of YSF developed by Tom Early, N7TAE. This change allows the operator to switch between channels/modules using DG-ID. Reflectors can be enabled with up to 26 channels, A through Z. For YSF, each channel is assigned a DG-ID beginning with “10” for channel “A,” “11” for channel “B,” “12” for “C” and so forth. URF517 currently has eight channels enabled, A thru E and X thru Z. ...

There are multiple ways to connect to the RadioSC system including D-STAR and FM Repeaters, Echolink, Allstar, and many of the Amateur Radio digital modes including Yaesu System Fusion, D-STAR, DMR, M17, P25, and NXDN via hotspots and other Internet-based means. Read the Quadnet page and join us on our Discord Server to learn more. Connect via Repeaters KR4CHS, Awendaw, SC D-STAR 145.120 (-) W4IAR, Hilton Head Island, SC D-STAR 147.375(+) W4IAR, Hilton Head Island/Bluffton Analog Repeater 442.675 (+), 100 Hz (linked for Nets) W4GL, Sumter, SC 444.150+ PL123.0 D-Star/FM, (linked for Nets) Connect with digital modes: D-STAR DCS517A or XRF517A M17 URF517A DMR XLX517A (64001) or Quadnet TG 517 or TGIF TG 517 YSF31001 - US - C4FM - QUADNT - YCS310, DG-ID TX 81, DG-ID RX 00 or FCS31081 - nn or YSF51700 (DG-ID TX 10, DG-ID RX 00) or YSF000517 (DG-ID TX 10, DG-ID RX 00) P25 TG 517 NXDN TG 517 Connect with Allstar and Echolink Allstar 50076 Echolink N4HEK-R Available Channels on the URF517 Reflector for Direct Connection Module A is the transcoding channel (also known as a module). Channel A has two hardware transcoders, one for transmit and one for receive. ...