Re: 23cm D-Star HT
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Last I checked the UK was having trouble getting licenses/authorization for 23cm -- but Icom USA was going to continue the product.? The full repeater is a good idea, but you may have to detune duplexers for the bandwidth (130 khz vs 6.25khz), of course vertical separation shouldn't be that big of a deal on 23cm, eliminating duplexers all together. ?When the UDR56K-4 comes out, you may be able to do a 23cm / 70cm crossband repeater. ---In D-STAR_23cm@..., <w4aqr@...> wrote: One thing that would spur DD activity is if ICOM
had designed the DD box as a true repeater and not just an access
point.
I have considered adding a second DD box to my
stack and pass the data from one box to the other through a server.
Since our current box operates in the 1250 range we
could easily put another box in the 1297 range and create a true
repeater.
I am not sure it is worth all of the effort just to
get ISDN speeds. There are other less expensive options that are
faster.
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George - W4AQR
From: Dean Gibson AE7Q
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 12:13 PM
To: D-STAR_23cm@...
Subject: Re: [D-STAR_23cm] Re: 23cm D-Star HT My guess is that sales of the ID-1 have not been up to Icom's expectations (for several reasons).? My guess is that they have significant overstock (hence the recent price reduction on the ID-1). I own an ID-1, and all my contacts on it have been on FM !? The last one was a three-way conversation with another ID-1 owner and an IC-9100 owner, on a 23cm FM repeater some 35 miles away (which I can successfully use at the one watt setting) !!! There are two closer 23cm DV modules and three 23cm DD modules, and all have been on the air for years.? One pair suffers from a VERY poor location, another pair suffers from an untuned duplexer, and the third DD module is not connected to the Internet (which makes it useless). If anyone thinks it's frustrating to be in an area with no local 23cm D-Star modules on the air, it is no less frustrating to have them on the air but unusable.? Situations like this do not spur the sales of ID-1 radios.
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John Hays - K7VE / WRJT-215