If what I saw from Mr. Pyefinch's quoted material below, the dongle is a good way to go, but it is better with a higher speed connection (yes, I've used mine with Wi-Fi with no problems).
Unfortunatly, as Nate commented, D*Star is not one at tech where you can easily open the box and play with it. Proper basic programming is required. I would recommend finding and purchasing the cables and software to program your radio too, as it saves your memories in case you need to do a full-reset of the radio (not to mention it makes it much easier to enter the programming info!). Matt / N3WNX Nate Duehr wrote: > David Pyefinch wrote: > > > Anyways on to my point. I kind of expected that from the end user point of >> view I would be able to turn on the HT, Tune in the repeater and key the rig >> and talk to the world. Not so simple it seems from where I am sitting. Not >> sure if that is as simple as one can make it or not. Or if all the bells and >> whistles are making this D-Star an overly complex operation. >> > > Definitely not the correct impression. D-STAR has a learning curve > that's not super-steep for just talking on the local repeater (put in > your callsign and the repeater's callsign in RPT1 and YourCall fields, > respectively), but it's not "plug and play". > > >> I will try playing a little more when I have some time, but since I spend >> most of my time away from home and sitting in some Hotel I wonder if the >> Dongle is the way I should be heading. >> > > Interesting observation. The dongle does seem to work pretty well, from > those that have them. (I do not.) > > Nate WY0X > >
