[W6YRA] icom and D-STAR

[Khoury, Jeff]

Good Morning,

I was chatting with a guy in Rolla, MO (my hometown) via d-star last night.  The repeater that I was linked to is run by the Missouri S&T ARC (W0EEE).  The guy I was talking to said that icom donated the d-star repeater and equipment to the club in order to further D-STAR's adoption.  The requirements were that they come up with 10 people to register on the D-STAR gateway and a couple of other minor requirements.

Maybe we should look in to this if it is still available, as D-STAR is a very neat evolution of amateur radio in my opinion, and there are a couple of companies in addition to icom that have D-STAR equipment in development as well.  I plan to start playing with DVAPs, hotspots, etc. built on the Raspberry PI platform in the near future.

If anyone would like a D-STAR demo, I'd be happy to bring my 2820 in to the shack and let everyone see what all the buzz is about.

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Jeff R. Khoury
Manager, Platform Support
UCLA Information Technology Services (ITS)
741 Charles E. Young Drive South
CSB1 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90095
P: 310.825.9594
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