The Raytown Missouri Amateur Radio Club sponsors a "Technology Net' every Friday night with a different technical subject each week. Guest speakers are invited to present a particular subject of interest to the Amateur community. The presentation is delivered over the clubs two meter repeater (Kansas City area) and also available on Echolink. This week's subject should be of particular interest to this group, so I've sent this announcement to the D-Star Yahoo Group. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- The subject for this week's Technology net is D-Star. The standard for digital voice and data for Amateur radio. Developed by the Japanese Amateur Radio League. The presentation will give a timeline of the development with an explanation of Terminology and Technical Data. Also, information on the local repeaters and simplex activity around the Kansas City area. A general question and answer period will be held following the presentation. Our speaker is a real expert of this subject, Tom Rhodelander, NM0N. Tom is the System Admin for K0HAM and W0CW, D-Star systems in KC. In his professional life, Tom is a Computer Systems Engineer and has a great deal of interest in computer and network systems as well as radio, thus his interest in D-STAR, and similar technology. Please join us and add your comments about issues you may have or ask questions to the group concerning D-Star as used in Ham Radio.
The Technology net is on the Raytown Amateur Radio Club repeater at 8 pm Central time, Friday night 145.170(-) no PL tone. You can connect directly to the repeater or on Echolink K0GQ-R node 403841. We are expecting great interest in this subject. The *MISSOURI* conference server node 452514 is also available giving great Echolink connectivity for Hams all over the globe. You can see an outline of the presentation on-line on our website: http://k0gq.com/images/DStarPresentation.pdf Jerry NF9L Michael KB0EPY
