Hi Mark, I am glad you are getting good responses to your question. I believe D-Star will continue to grow and at a faster rate. It is my opinion that dplus has made this possible allowing repeaters to link to each other in an easier fashion than the Icom concept. I jumped in back in August when the local AES store in Orlando put up an operating vhf and uhf repeater (W4AES) with gateway. As Bob, W2BZY, has mentioned, the OARC club repeaters will have gateway soon (Thank you Bob!) I am sure you have looked at the dstarusers.org site and can see sites going up through out the Florida area. It has been a high learning curve, but it has been fun and still is. Why don't you take a drive to AES and take a look at the setup. The repeaters are in the front of the store at the end of the counter. Bruce, WD4HIM, did most of the work, is quite knowledgeable and works at AES. I think it would be great if you put up a D-Star repeater and I am willing to help as I am sure would others. If it were not for other repeater users and owners, W4AES would still be struggling. It has received support from as far away as Alabama and a lot from the Lakeland D-Star group.
Orlando's Hamcation is going to be more fun in February with a stronger D-Star presence. Best of Wishes (73) James, N0XIA
