On Jan 19, 2010, at 7:44 PM, earl_needham wrote: > And how long will it take me to figure out how to make it go?
I'm a D-Star noob as well. I bought an ID-880H on Friday afternoon. I had it running in "prototype" mode in the shack well enough to have a conversation with some of the Connecticut D-Star folks to give me some pointers. It was (mostly) installed and running in the car on Saturday evening (I still have to get a suitable remote speaker). It's not "rocket science," but it is different than running on your standard FM repeater. The D-Star Calculator on www.dstarinfo.com was helpful for understanding the settings. Also the information on www.dstarusers.org was useful for figuring out whether I was getting into the system. In other words, I think if you're willing to do your homework, it's not really that hard to get up and running effectively, and the D-Star community, at least in my local area, has been one of the more helpful ham communities I've encountered. > > Thanks, > Earl-- > > KD5XB -- Earl Needham > Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs > Quoting from the Coast Guard: ZUT -- Jeremy McDermond (NH6Z) Xenotropic Systems [email protected]
