First, thank you Mr. King for your service.
I disagree that the D-Star radio can replace the radios they have just because
it does FM. It seems to me that they are using APRS extensively to allow loved
ones to track them as they travel around.
While the D-Star radio will provide location while working a D-Star repeater,
it won't when not on a D-Star repeater. Further, there will only be locations
recorded when they key the radio.
This would require "kerchunking" if they wished to have a continuous stream of
tracking data. Bad form, and it requires continuous D-Star coverage.
While D-Star has it's qualities, vehicle tracking is not one of it's strong
suits.
Now, if there was a radio that did D-Star AND APRS, that would be nice, but it
seems that ICOM may be concentrating on D-Star and getting away from APRS. I
would love to be wrong about that though.
--- In [email protected], Jack <jack.mrfixit...@...> wrote:
>
> Rex and Vickie, Please remember that the Dstar radios also do FM as well as
> Dstar so if you were to purchase them they can replace the radios you have.
> Also know that the programming of them does intimidate some people but do not
> let that stop you as there are lots of people on here that can and will help
> you to get them set up they can also be programmed from a computer this makes
> it very easy and convent(plug in a cable and upload the file to the radio and
> it is programmed) I use the software and cable from www.rtsystemsinc.com and
> they work very well I have the software that allows me to program all of the
> different radios I have and use ONE file so all the radios can have the same
> info in the same channel slots.
>
> N6UYB/4
> Jack E. Foster
>
