[W6YRA] icom and D-STAR

[Kenneth Kuo]

D-Star...  humm...  I want to say that when I looked at D-Star several
years ago, the ICOM products with that system were rather pricey.  In
particular, the ICOM dual-band HTs with D-Star were priced about as much as
a good mobile.

That said, I wouldn't mind taking another look at D-Star.


KHK




On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Khoury, Jeff <jkhoury at it.ucla.edu> wrote:

>  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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