Other than occasional unidirectional (please don't beacon) GPS reports, DStar DV slow speed data at what, 900 baud or so, is about as useful as smoke and mirrors for any practical data transfer purpose, Emcomm or otherwise (DRats is interesting, not useful). Moreover, you cannot transmit slow speed data and voice simultaneously (except for GPS and your 20 character pre-programmed text message). DD data might be useful (are there any existing Emcomm software apps?), but how many of you have ID-1's? Let's be objective here...
73 - John ==> D-rats has made the slow speed data portion actually usable, if you don't know how to use it, that's unfortunate, but not the fault of the product. The ability to do file transfers with error correction, email forwarding, etc. is what makes the slow speed data somewhat usable. Without software, it's a lame data pipe. The fact that the product allows simultaneous voice and data (moreover, it requires simultaneous voice and data packets in the data stream) does not mean that is particularly useful for anything without some software. ==> As far as DD, the ID-1 is simply a bridge. We have several, point to point we've pushed it 70+ miles with 64kb of throughput. If you need ethernet between two places, this is a great solution. I've found little use for the 1200 data access point (it is NOT a repeater). 73 Daron N7HQR [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
