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D-Star Gateway Registration Instructions

To annals your callsign with the D-Star network, please follow the steps listed beneath.

NOTE: While these instructions should work for whatsoever D-STAR gateway, the Denton County Amateur Radio Association cannot offer support except to those already registered on the W5NGU gateway.

If you lot do not live in or near Denton County, TX, delight visit www.dstarusers.org to locate a repeater about your location.
New registration requests for those in the Denton, TX area likewise equally those without a local D-STAR gateway should exist directed to the REGIST server, administered by the USTRUST grouping.
If y'all are currently registered with the W5NGU gateway and need back up, please contact our D-STAR administration squad by logging into your account at Hamclubonline.com and using the "Send Message to Club Direction" feature.

ane. Open a web browser and enter https://dstargateway.dcara.net/Dstar.do for the URL. Notice that you are using https and not http for the prefix and that the alphabetic character �D� is capitalized in the word �Dstar.practise�. Y'all will receive a alarm similar to the i beneath.

Select �Continue to this website� if using Internet Explorer, or �Take this certificate temporarily for this session� if using Firefox, or �Go on� if using Apple Safari.

The cert error page displayed in Internet Explorer	The cert error popup dialog in Firefox

two. Y'all should run across the web page shown beneath. Click �Register� to begin the New User registration procedure.

3. You should run into the web folio shown below. Click �Register� to brainstorm the New User registration procedure. The following web page should be displayed.

4.Click on �Yes� to agree to the registration terms. Enter your callsign in the Callsign field IN UPPER Example. Enter your full name in mixed instance, and your electronic mail accost.
Enter your new password in both fields. Passwords must exist at to the lowest degree 8 characters in length and no longer than 16. Your web page should look similar to the ane below (with your personal information shown). Click �OK� to proceed once finished.

v. Your browser will display the following popup. Click OK to continue on (Firefox shown)

6. The following spider web page should be displayed. Click OK. Your registration request has been submitted for approving. The gateway administrator must now log into the organization to approve your request. The approval may happen quickly or it may take a day or two depending on how oftentimes the adminstrator logs into the organisation.

Fifty-fifty though the page states you will receive an email when your registration is approved, this functionality is disabled on the gateway, and then you will need to periodically try to log in following the next step in the process to come across if your registration is approved yet. (Please be patient with the administrators, nosotros have "real lives" to attend to as well!)

7. You lot should try to log in periodically to bank check on the status of your registration. Utilise the same URL listed in step 1, https://dstargateway.dcara.net/Dstar.practise and use your callsign (IN UPPER CASE) and the password you entered during registration. If your registration has non been approved past the administrators yet, you'll come across the following folio:

viii. In one case your registration has been approved, you will be able to log into the system and configure your personal information. THIS Step IS REQUIRED.
In one case you are logged in, click on �Personal Data� at the right of the page. You should run across a web page similar to the following.

9. Click on the checkbox next to the number �1�. And so click inside the �Initial� box to the right of your callsign on the same line equally the number �i�.
Type in a single infinite grapheme. (i.e. press the space bar on your keyboard once)
This will non bear witness up but is very of import.
Do not click on the �RPT� cheque box.Click on the pcname field to select information technology.
In the �pcname� box, enter your callsign in lower example.
All characters in the �pcname� box should exist lower example and there should be no spaces.
Your spider web page should look similar to the following folio (with your personal information shown). When complete, click on �Update�.

Annotation for ID-1 data users: the "Local IP" yous see on this screen is the ten.x.x.x private IP that goes with your call sign.
The previous instructions for setting up the ID-ane for data utilize still employ.

ten. In one case you accept clicked �Update�, y'all should see the following popup box (Firefox version shown)

eleven. Click OK. Your registration is completed now.
Click the Log Out push button in the upper right corner to log out of the gateway server.

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