Hi Nate
There is no good answer here. No one defines on how we use the tool (radio), but just to allow the tool to be used in as many configurations as possible. I could not agree more on the digital to analogue conversion, however, in reality, what 'most' of the world wants is the ability to send your data (voice) and have it seamlessly converted. If you were to back up 5 years ago, what would you have said to the fact that all you can do is call others with only a digital cell phone and you can't call those on an analogue one. We are not talking about converting CW to Audio (are we?). Personally, I believe we need to do this to help increase our numbers, if not only for a disaster, but so that we can bond together like the Borg. J The ID issue isn't the issue. That part is solved, either by voice, machine or it just doesn't matter for your country. Off soapbox. Mike VA3MW p.s. But, I will 100% agree with you if you can help me keep my openvpn connection from dropping on my vista 64 laptop to my Astaro gateway. It wouldn't be so bad if it would tell me it dropped. ;) From: Nate Duehr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:23 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: [DStar-Gateway] The great "red herring" (US Primarily) John D. Hays wrote: > This message is not advocating the interconnection, it is merely to > point out that the ID argument is not valid. A given gateway operator > may have other reasons for not wishing interconnection, and it is within > their rights to deny it. I'm not advocating or not the interconnection either, but I think the argument people are making isn't one of "legal ID", it's one of "we're losing a feature" when we interconnect. Why upgrade to a digital system that gives you the callsign of the operator on the far end, if someone's just going to inject analog signals that have no ID associated with them, or worse a "fake" callsign that's always the same... into that nice, advanced, digital system with the neat feature? That's backwards thinking, not forwards. In other words... once you have a digital system that does these things... "Who cares?" about analog? (This coming from a guy who also operates 10 analog repeaters... analog has its place, but connecting it to the D-STAR network, is just kinda... dumb.) That's the rub, methinks... not that someone can't legally ID the signal. Voice works just fine for that, and always will. You can even ID an analog repeater legally that way here in the U.S. ... "This is WY0X via the WY0X repeater." on a repeater without an automatic ID'er... is perfectly legal here. I don't RECOMMEND it, but it's legal. Right up until the point where some noise or grunge opens the repeater's receiver some day when no one's listening... Nate WY0X [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
