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<DEFANGED_DIV>Not that I want to get in the middle of this....</DEFANGED_DIV>
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<DEFANGED_DIV>Here is what I rcvd from KC0PON@rf.org.....</DEFANGED_DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><DEFANGED_SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">There are several D-Star radios in the area. There are also several DV-Dongles. There was a show of hands at the July 21, CARC meeting.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><DEFANGED_SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ICOM has done a pretty good job of giving them away, or people in this area are just lucky, as two of us got them in ICOM give-a-ways.<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><DEFANGED_SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Gregg Lind made a presentation on D-Star and made a request that a D-Star repeater be added to the CARC budget for next year. I had made a similar presentation earlier in the year to CVARC<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><DEFANGED_SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">After the meeting in the parking lot I demonstrated D-Star in the simplex mode from my ID91AD to my 880H. There was also a 2820 in the parking lot.<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><DEFANGED_SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I have documented in the CVARC newsletter that the proposed DStar simplex frequency be 145.670 in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><DEFANGED_st1:City w:st="on"><DEFANGED_st1:place w:st="on">Cedar Rapids</DEFANGED_st1:place></DEFANGED_st1:City> area until a repeater becomes available. I usually monitor this on the way to work from 7:30 to 8:00. I have hooked up with KC0ONY a couple times.<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><DEFANGED_SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dennis Sutherland</DEFANGED_SPAN></FONT></P>
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