Tell that to anyone trying to coordinate a 2 meter (and often 70cm) repeater pair around a metropolitan area. The whole repeater coordination policies need to be revisited, but that's a different thread.
It's also a disappointment when you can't get a Tesla Roadster (http://www.teslamotors.com/) for the price of a golf cart. Each to its purpose and associated trade-offs. Steve wrote: > > 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. > > -- John D. Hays Amateur Radio Station K7VE <http://k7ve.ampr.org> PO Box 1223 Edmonds, WA 98020-1223 VOIP/SIP: [email protected] <sip:[email protected]> Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
