You missed the whole point. You and Ed seem to advocate that DPLUS is the only legitimate way to talk across the D-STAR network and have at least alluded that you would like callsign routing banned. For those cases where it makes better sense, it is the right solution, and it is part of the protocol, so those of us that understand it, will continue to use it.
Banning callsign routing use would be like banning defibrillators on airplanes (the point). They are not for every passenger, but for those who need them, I'm glad they are there. Those of us who understand and support callsign routing acknowledge that DPLUS provides functions that are useful to many, the reverse courtesy seems to be totally absent. john_ke5c wrote: > > > > > Callsign routing to a long haul truck driver who is in range of a > DStar repeater say 5% of the time, and whose whereabouts even then > would be known only if he remembered to key up? > > > > Well, that is like making the argument that there shouldn't be > defibrillators on airplanes because they only are useful 0.00001% of > the time when a passenger has a heart attack. > > I'm glad you agree: defibrillators are as useful to the average > airline passenger as callsign routing is to the average DStar radio user. > > 73 -- John > -- John D. Hays Amateur Radio Station K7VE <http://k7ve.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]
