Good topic indeed. I just bought a dongle a couple of days ago, and have been using it to talk on REF006A which outputs on 5 repeaters. So I consider this to be a good'ole RF contact. But I would never use it dongle to dongle, just as I never use my echolink node user to user. Might as well use skype or the telephone.
Jack VK2CJC / MM0AXL ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony Langdon To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 3:04 PM Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DV dongle QSO ham radio? (was: New poll for dstar_digital) At 02:09 PM 3/26/2010, you wrote: >Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the >dstar_digital group: > >Three folks with amateur radio callsigns chat over the internet, >each using a dv dongle. > > o This is an example of a round table amateur radio QSO. > o This is an example of an internet chat room. This is a better topic for a discussion than a poll, but it's an old one too, in that it has been raised in the context of Echolink and eQSO over the years. The more people you ask, the more differing opinions you'll receive! :) Personally, I like to throw RF around, so I prefer to use a gateway or hotspot (just finished building a hotspot), rather than the dongle, but the dongle is a useful tool that fits some situations better. 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com
