[W6YRA] icom and D-STAR

[Khoury, Jeff]

It's certainly not cheap, for sure but the technology is very interesting.

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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
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From: Kenneth Kuo <dogberto at gmail.com<mailto:dogberto at gmail.com>>
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 10:10 AM
To: Jeff Khoury <jkhoury at it.ucla.edu<mailto:jkhoury at it.ucla.edu>>
Cc: "w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu<mailto:w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>" <w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu<mailto:w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>>
Subject: Re: [W6YRA] icom and D-STAR


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Khoury, Jeff <jkhoury at it.ucla.edu<mailto: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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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<tel:310.825.9594>

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