I tend to go along with Ken's thinking. The overall D-Star isn't all that impressive to me. Mainly because of that utterly useless data throughput. 1200 baud was useful in the 1980's.. been there, done that with packet.
I've played with the 1.2 GHz ID-1 (the only D-Star radio) that provides a decent data throughput. Overall I'm not impressed with it's performance and price. As pointed out the real hindrance is the 6.25 KHz narrow bandwidth design of D-Star. A dirty shame since we have tons of bandspace, so I really don't see the need for narrow band in amateur radio. While overall it's a disappointment, D-Star is something new to mess with, so I will. --- In [email protected], "John D. Hays" <j...@...> wrote: > > This is really a question of bandwidth. The D-STAR Digital Voice system
