briefly, its a digital voice and data encoding system that icom has come up
with, at least I think icom did.
So, much like your sell phone on a GSM system or a CDA system, your voice or
data you send is encoded, transmitted and then decoded at the other end into
data or voice.
the voice quality is not good, however, the D star system can handle both
voice and data on the same frequency so it has quite a number of
possibilities.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
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Subject: Re: d-star


> What is D-star?
>
>  Scott
>  Auckland New Zealand
>  ZL1CHM / N0HOK
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Walter Hampton" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 6:02 AM
> > Subject: d-star
> >
> >
> >> will d-star take over fm? i can't afford d-star having bought the =
> >> tmv71a. what are we to do? are all of you going d-star?
> >>
> >> from Walter wb6jtj
> >>
>
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