On 7/31/21 02:30, Steve Stroh wrote:
All:
I'm working on a future story for my newsletter
() about the failed promise of the
Icom ID-1 system.
Part 1
I'm aware that there were (or still are) "ID-1 networks" in:
* Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN
* Dallas, TX
* Vancouver, BC
Anyone on this list from those groups?
Any others that you know about?
Back in 2013,2012 and 2010 DCC's i outlined a bunch of experiments we
did with someID1's.? I had a 'grand' plan for using them as a longer
range "Last Mile" network for a while.
There are two High sites at the East and West of the county. The plan
was to link them with a 5.8Ghz backbone, with an ID1 for Access and
2.4/5.8Ghz for egress at multiple locations, but a number of factors led
to the project not getting completed, site access, the potential NWDR
UDRX, and my inability to get others excited about the project scuppered
it eventually. The terrain around here is quite hilly, the radios quite
expensive and the density of Amateur Radio operators too low to really
make 1.2Ghz viable.
Regards
John
EI7IG
Any other significant use of ID-1s outside of Japan?
Part 2
Any thoughts from this group about the "ID-1" capability in the Icom
IC-9700 (1240-1300 MHz, inclusion of D-Star "DD" mode)?
Part 3
Does anyone here have any contacts within Icom relevant to the ID-1?
Thanks,
Steve Stroh N8GNJ
