This connector can stay active in the background if Stay connected in
background is checked, which means you can use the openSPOT4 the same
way as before with other active connector, but it will function also as a personal
DAPNET/POCSAG transmitter. The openSPOT4 will automatically broadcast
DAPNET/POCSAG messages when there's no call coming from the network or
modem for POCSAG TX delay seconds (this can be set on the Settings page,
POCSAG settings section), so ongoing calls won't be interrupted by POCSAG
messaging. If the DAPNET connector is running in the background then you can
see its connection status on the Status page.
If Transmit time messages is unchecked then the openSPOT4 won't transmit
time messages from the DAPNET server. Some messages are ROT1 encoded,
these will be automatically decoded if the ROT1 decoder is enabled. Note that
not all ROT1 encoded messages can be recognized automatically so there can be
received messages which won't be automatically decoded.
You can specify 8 RICs (IDs in POCSAG terminology) to filter messages to. If the
Enabled checkbox is checked, then the openSPOT4 will only transmit POCSAG
messages sent to these RICs by the DAPNET server.
DAPNET registration
You'll need 2 accounts to use DAPNET: one personal and one transmitter
account. Here's how to create these accounts.
First, open a new ticket at support.hampager.de and select New DAPNET
Account with RIC as the Help Topic. Fill in all required data and create the
ticket. After this open a new ticket again and select New DAPNET Transmitter
as the Help Topic. Fill in all required data and create the ticket.
You can set your callsign for both the personal and the transmitter account. For
the transmitter registration, set the Transmitter Type to personal, and the
Antenna Type to Omni. Transmitter output power is 0.02 for the openSPOT4.
You can set the Antenna gain in dBi to 1 dB.
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