Randy wrote: > > > Hello! > > I am the guy running the D-Star audio stream for the RST Club in > Tucson. Currently, I am running it from the output of a 2200H through > a mixer and EQ, then into a computer. When I first started streaming, > I used the Dongle. It sounded great. Unfortunately, it would drop > the connection and disconnect me quite often. I could not walk away > from it, go to work and count on it still being up and running when I > got home.
This is good info. Others have reported this as well, and I was considering setting up some streams for Colorado's system(s)... looks like I'll be doing it with radios (when I can afford them... the group's not going to pay for dedicated "listening" radios, I suppose). Someone mentioned a while back that there's a software-based CODEC that someone used to make the "D-STAR extender" using the discriminator output of a regular FM receiver, and the software. I wonder if something like that could be used for getting the audio from the local systems more inexpensively than "wasting" a transceiver on it. An old scanner and 5 minutes to stick a wire at a decent discriminator tap point, is a lot cheaper than buying a rig to dedicate to listening to the local system for things like this. > Any suggestions, comments or ideas how to make the Dongle work for > this purpose? If not, no worry, I will continue to use the 2200H. I > have several other D-Star radios. However, using one of them in the > house while streaming causes interference to the 2200H, thus making > the audio on the stream unreliable. Need to filter the 2200H's receiver... just like a repeater... a very tight bandpass cavity setup and as much vertical (or not as good, but better than nothing... horizontal) separation of antennas on the same bands... Nate WY0X
