--- In [email protected], "btwlgw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I noticed a good D-Star article in the November issue, page 20: > "Amateur Radio's D-STAR Spearheads Innovation" > > Written by Jason Togyer, KB3CNM. I've only glanced at it thus far but > it seems to cover many of the basics as well as D-Star's current > popularity or lack thereof, depending on your point of view ;) > > 73, > Benson K4GST (who has recently learned of a plan to install a D-Star > repeater about 30 miles from his QTH in the NW corner of rural North > Carolina - woot!) >
You can read their online excerpt at: http://www.popular-communications.com/PC%20Highlights%20PC%20Nov%2008.html I agree it's one of the more innovative things to come to ham radio in a while. But really overall I am disappointed because there really isn't much to it beyond pressing the PTT to enable hams to further the innovation. It's a digital appliance. There are however some rather clever hams doing interesting things with the DV dongle development. I don't understand why the D-star radios don't have some sort of digital interface port/jack. I'd love it if I could buy a D-Star radio, that has an digital interface of sorts. Something along the lines of D-Star Inter RF Subsystem Interface (ISSI). An interface that perhaps transcodes to a more open standard codec like G711 using SIP and RTP protocols (standardized protocols) so one can connect the radios together into wide area networks. If I can connect the D-star radio in my shack into my asterisk network, then we have something.
