Thanks everyone for the education on D Star position reports. We now have a better understanding on how the system works.
We live in our motorcoach and not being in the best of health, we like having our kids and grandkids following us, as we travel. Often they will call us if they don't see us moving. Hi Hi! We appreciate their concern for us. We are encouraging each of our 6 kids and 10 grandkids to get their ticket so they can communicate with us. Investing in D Star has become a difficult issue. We have no repeaters in our area yet, but we're promised a state wide system in Georgia in the next year. We are presently on an extended visit with 3 of our kids who live in Georgia, and plan to be here for a while longer. Our home QTH is Texas, and I don't see hardly any D Star coverage there yet. Of course we remember back when we thought hard about purchasing a Heath Kit Two Meter FM Rig, since all we had ever used was HF, and we didn't know if 2 Meter FM was going to be just a fad. We have HF, and a dual band with APRS in both the Motorcoach and our Tahoe (check out http://www.aprs.fi/db/W5EAK to see our equipment), and now we are looking at adding 2 more (expensive) radios. You can understand why we want to gather as much information about the technology as we can before spending the money. Besides, we are retired living on a pension, this does not allow us to spend lots of money for radios, especially for ones that may not work where we may be located. Thanks to each of you! We really appreciate your assistance. We are leaning toward the D Star, but need to wait until there are repeaters in our area before spending the bucks. 73, Rex W5EAK Vicki K5VLK 02 Tahoe: http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=w5eak-9&radar=*** 02 Monaco Windsor: http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=k5vlk-9&radar=***
