At 02:15 PM 1/19/2010, Catrina White wrote:
The DVAP sounds itneresting. Is there a way that they could make it like a
digipeater, like APRS? I'm just wondering if that is possible. I am a
bicycle mobile ham whom uses APRS ( a garmin deluxe V and a kenwood d-7)
(which sits nicely inside a pack held in the water bottle cage on the
downtube)...
CAT
KG6PPA
Hi, CAT,
Gonna have to reel you back a few yards here.
The DVAP will be a little slab of plastic that plugs into a computer's USB
port. It uses the computer's Internet connection to allow a D-STAR radio in
the immediate vicinity (several hundred feet) to access the D-STAR repeater
network. That's all. No analog FM capability. No packet capability. No APRS
(which is packet) capability. No
And it will not work as a repeater (digi or otherwise). But then it
wouldn't need to - your HT will have much greater range than the DVAP has.
I'm not sure if you were looking for an APRS connection, or just using it
as an example, but here's the story on D-STAR and APRS:
The only connection between APRS and D-STAR is a one-way porting of
location data FROM GPS-equipped D-STAR radios to the APRS network. That
happens at the D-STAR repeater/Gateway with a resident program called DPRS.
So, were you to carry a properly configured D-STAR HT with GPS (like the
92AD and 80AD with GPS Mic), your transmissions through your local D-STAR
repeater would make you visible on the APRS network. I know you'd be seen
on websites like FIND-U and APRS.fi. I'm not sure if you'd be ported out to
your local APRS RF system. Maybe someone with experience can clarify that
point.
So all of that has nothing to do with the DV Access Point Dongle... unless
you want to tote a PC (maybe a little netbook) with a wireless access card
and a DVAP along on your bike.
Keep asking questions!
73,
Gary KN4AQ
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Gary Pearce KN4AQ
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