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> From: Michael Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 26 August, 2013 1:05:35 PM NDT
> To: Michael Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re_dStar and internet based modes
> 
> Hi: 
> 
> I wouldn't be looking at the 2M internet linking system as my primary source of amateur Radio. 
> I'm mostly an HF/DX chaser, all be it a weekend op. 
> The main reason I don't bother with the 2M internet linking is because there are vary few IRLP/Echolink and other types up here in Newfoundland. 
> The ones we do have are either poorly maintained, spread over a large geographic area or are private. This is why I don't play around with this stuff allot because I'd have to use a computer to get on and couldn't be bothered with the computer side of it. 
> However, I wouldn't mind using an actual 2M handi, in the case of my apartment or a 2M mobile at the cottage to hit the dStar repeater. 
> Out of the half dozen public echolink repeaters and maybe another half dozen privatized nodes, believe it or not, the dStar repeater is the best maintained and functioning. 
> Its also the best geographically located. I could either hit is with a handi, or with a 50W mobile when I'm at the cottage. 
> I wouldn't be able to hit the closest reliable echolink repeater. LOL
> That said, I'm not gonna rely on it and just view it as just another facet if radios are involved, not so much if the PC is at each end.
> I'd use it now and then if I had a reliable echolink/alstarlink repeater in my area and had either a 2M handi or 50W mobile with accessible dStar. . 
> 
> 73: 
> 
> Michael DE VO1AX
>