Benson wrote:
As a new D-Star user, I can't understand this statement: "DR mode is
not compatible with add-on D-PLUS software, commonly used to link
repeaters, nor with stations accessing the network with a DV Dongle
connected to their computers." Can someone enlighten me? 73 de NE4W
There was considerable discussion about this, in this group and others
when the ID-80 and ID-880 first came out. You can go back into the
messages on Yahoo! to read the specifics. The basics are this:
1. Linking is not part of the D-STAR protocol design. AA4RC, and others
have created it as an "add-on" feature. The way it is setup requires
callsign fields to be setup in a certain way.
2. Icom does not, in my opinion, engage the community in the US
sufficiently to understand what we, as consumers, want as feature sets.
Linking on D-STAR is not as common in Japan, so they designed the DR
mode around callsign routing as is the D-STAR native mode of
communicating across repeaters. In so doing, they made assumptions that
do not allow pre-programming callsigns in DR mode in a way that is
compatible with the AA4RC code.
3. Even with this feature set, one can still use the 80 and 880 with the
linking system to talk to gateways, reflectors, and DV Dongle users --
just not with DR mode in a manner that the user might expect.
--
John D. Hays
Amateur Radio Station K7VE <http://k7ve.org>
PO Box 1223
Edmonds, WA 98020-1223
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