At 12:40 PM 6/5/2008, you wrote: >well Steeve >i never received any response,, >and never i had some clues of ,,if you could modify my master 2 >so i will have to wait,until price goes down to used Dstar >for the moment it is too expensive for me,i will keep my others VOIP
Well, at this time, you need to use the ICOM repeater modules. You would need to implement digital modulation and demodulation, which means direct access to the discrominator and modulator (assuming it's true FM and not PM). In addition, you would need a board to decode the D-STAR headers (but not the audio), and also an interface to the controller unit, which in tern is interfaced to the gateway. And I suspect there's a lot of proprietary technology in there, as the interconnections are internal to the ICOM repeater units. In short: It may be possible to "roll your own" repeater and connect it to a gateway, but at this time, it would be very time intensive. In the future, I would like to see an open design that will interface to the gateway software, but that's a fair way off. There's also the matter that many sites require equipment to meet certain specs, and for those sites, a packaged solution like we have would be better anyway. 73 de VK3JED http://vkradio.com
