John,
Does someone make an adapter for the Motorola digital system? Some of the
guys around here are using D-Star, but they are only using it for RACES
work. The Icom D-Star equipment is rather expensive and not very accessible
at this time.
73
Bob Tinney, K8LR, [log in to unmask]
Skype, bobtinn
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: DSTAR
Yaesu had something, not sure if they still do, it never went anywhere,
Kenwood has nothing and I'd doubt if they will. Motorola's system seems to
be most popular from what I know, mostly because you can run the repeater in
duel mode, you can either use them for voice or digital, voice users can put
a tone on the receive so they don't have to hear the digital chatter. I
wouldn't be shocked to see that, or something like it take off, but DStar's
biggest problem right now, in my book is, that's what you have with those
repeaters so you're stuck with it. Also, they're going all over the band,
and not in the regular repeater segments where they belong. That, along with
echolink and the lazy people stuff like that, are reasons I really don't get
on UHF and VHF anymore except for ARES/RACES and NTS stuff, I never rag chew
there anymore hardly. Maybe that will change when my repeater goes up but
that will be straight old fashion voice, linked to my 900 MHz machine, and
hopefully that's it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 2:22 PM
Subject: DSTAR
> Hi;
> Thanks for the dstar info. I guess I haven't kept up to date on some
> things. Do kenwood and yaesu have their own versions of dstar? If so, I
> suppose they are incompatible with each other. Looked at the review for
> the
> ic92 and sounds like quite the complex little handheld.
> I'm glad Ray is blazing the trail for the cowardly folks like me.
> Richard
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