WOW what a response for the recent "new guy" post! Seems like an abundance of energy in this group.
I saw a presentation and demonstration of a D-Star hot-spot using a node adapter (Ham Radio University sponsored by GSBARC) and as a result I joined this group to learn more. I am an officer in a Long Island club that operates 3 analog repeaters, two 70cm and one 2m. We have discussed turning one of them into a D-Star repeater but the significant investment is beyond the reach of our small club. I think the node adapter hot spot is well within our grasp though. With the closest D-Star repeater on the Empire State Building in NYC there is not much D-Star activity here and I think the hot-spots will create opportunity. So on to my first question: I sent an email to Satoshi ([email protected] ) to buy an assembled node adapter which his website says is available (updated 12/23/2009). It has been about 10-days with no reply and no indication that the email was undeliverable. In the experience of this group, does it take Satoshi a long time to answer email? I realize that this is probably not his "day job" and he might be overloaded with requests so please help set my expectation levelÂ… how patient do I need to be? 73 de KA2UGZ - Jay
