[CRAPRS] FW: Eastern Iowa DSTAR Frequencies?

[Gary Bishop]

 Welcome to the list, Randy.  I'm only marginally aware of D-Star capabilities.  I've

seen the videos, and looked at the specifications.  I just can't quite figure out the benefits around here.  Not that D-Star isn't useful near high traffic areas, where sharing the channel can reap benefits.  I guess it just hasn't reached critical mass yet.

 

The only one around here with D-Star capability is KC0PON.  I don't think he's on this list, so you might want to contact him directly.

 

Although D-Star isn't ARPS, they are both digital modes, and I know of no other place to reasonably ask such questions.   Please keep us informed what you find out.

 

 

73   Gary  NQ0V

 

 
> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:00:15 -0500
> From: randy at wb0vhb.com
> To: craprs at rf.org
> Subject: [CRAPRS] Eastern Iowa DSTAR Frequencies?
> 
> Posting from the CRAPRS mailing list:
> I know this is a reply to a message posted last May but I just joined 
> the list. I don't know of any D-Star repeaters in eastern Iowa but I 
> recently installed a Motorola Mototrbo digital repeater near Mt. 
> Pleasant (about 60 miles south of CR). Mobile and portable GPS is built 
> into some models of mobiles and portables.
> 
> It is connected via the Internet for VOIP operation to a couple 
> repeaters in California and one in Washington state. It is on 444.350 
> and has HT range of about 40 miles.
> 
> Two of the hams in California owned D-Star repeaters before buying the 
> Motorola. They sold them because of too many problems keeping them 
> working and connected to the D-Star network.
> 
> The Motorola digital repeater has two TDMA voice slots. One channel is 
> used for talking to the other Internet connected repeaters. The second 
> channel is used for local QSOs. Both voice channels can naturally be 
> used at the same time without affecting the other channel. I'm told 
> D-Star doesn't this ability. 
> 
> My Mototrbo mobile and HT both have built-in GPS and text messaging. I 
> am trying to find someone that can remove the GPS data from my 
> transmissions and adapt it to APRS. The GPS information is sent with 
> the voice packets where another mobile connected to a computer can 
> display my position. I'm more of a RF ham than software.
> 
> Randy
> WB0VHB
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