If you're in the coverage of a javaARPSd equipped Gateway, the 800's D-PRS functionality will get your location to the Gateway and out to the Net. Folks with 2820's and more "advanced" rigs say they see my GPS data just fine.
Not sure if the "advanced D-PRS" features of the 880 are any great shakes... if you can find something in those specific features that you NEED, that'd be a different story, but the 800 and an attached GPS seems to work just fine for everything I've ever tried to do with it for position/location information. Neither rig has a way to display the direction or location of OTHER D-PRS rigs, like the 2820 does. You have to hook a laptop to the serial port and use software to RECEIVE other station's location information with both the 800 and 880, I believe. The built-in "point to the other station" feature is only in the 2820, AFAIK. -- Nate Duehr [email protected] On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:02 +0000, "whynotbecreative" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Alan, Thanks for pointing to the chart. That's a very handy chart. I see the GPS (DPRS?) options are more advanced. I used to be very big into APRS, but kind of lost interest. But seeing that this radio has these capabilities may rekindle my interest in PRS's. 73, --Alex KR1ST --- In [1]dstar_digi...@yahoogroups. com, "Alan Biddle" <alanbiddl...@...> wrote: > > Alex, > > There is a pretty good comparison table on the Icom web site: > > www.icomamerica.com/en/products/amateur/dstar/dstar/default. aspx > > Look to the right. There are two. 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