Rex, There are 12 repeaters in Ga and 23 in Tx.
You can check here to see where they are located. http://www.dstarusers.org/repeaters.php?repeatersort=5 Fran Signature -- Fran, W1FJM <http://www.miele-family.com/weather> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:25 AM, E.A. King III W5EAK <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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=***<http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=w5eak&radar=***> > 02 Monaco Windsor: > http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=k5vlk-9&radar=***<http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=k5vlk&radar=***> > > >
