Nice answer John! On our very first 23cm DD mode deployment in 2007 one of our users did not turn off updates. Killed the network until one of the K5TIT guys walked over and pulled the plug on that guys laptop.
I like the D-RATS program. We have used it here in Northern VA for testing. Not yet in a activation but that will come. As an aside, for the Inauguration 2008 we used an unequipped port on a local D-STAR gateway/repeater to serve as a chat server. We had DVDongle users that met on that port for coordination. For the lack of a local reflector worked pretty nicely. I would like to see a slower speed DD mode we could use on lower bands. Might be an improvement on 9600 bps packet on a band with better propagation than 23cm. 73, Tom Azlin n4zpt John Hays wrote: > Hi Ron, > > There are two "data" type services on D-STAR. > > The first is part of the DV (Digital Voice) mode. The DV data stream
