Nate, Please get your fact straights before spreading FUD.
D-PLUS was created before the DVDongle. D-PLUS is NOT REQUIRED for a D-STAR repeater, or one that is connected to the Trust Server. Again, DPLUS IS NOT REQUIRED! Of course not installing it would probably be foolhardy as linking is pretty much a way of life for may repeaters. People refusing to learn callsign routing IS NOT THE ONLY REASON. I know how to do it (after all, I kinda wrote the book). But I don't like its implementation. I don't use it. I think that it is a relatively ill-conceived function that was only half-heatedly though through. I believe that you also may be making a mistake to believe that Icom's gateway implementation is the way that it was intended to be utilized. I can with good conscious, state that without DPLUS, DSTAR would probably have died. Or at least be at significantly lower levels of penetration than today. A LOT of people enjoy listening to REF001C and the nets. A lot of grant money has been spent with the capability to link repeaters pretty much a requirement. By the way, what have you done for D-STAR today? Ed From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nate Duehr Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Linking vs. Source Routing Over here, D-PLUS is virtually a requirement so a private company can sell and offer DV-Dongle... gateway operators don't really get a choice as to whether or not they want that particular add-on. And I'm not saying it isn't useful... it is... but I'd almost wish people HAD to learn the Icom way FIRST so they FULLY understand how the system was DESIGNED to work, prior to getting the keys to drive the D-PLUS links... THE ONLY REASON you find callsign routing "a problem" is because people refuse to learn it. Anyone that understands it, can deal with it... including hitting their One-Touch button to route back to the "interloper" and tell them what's happening. Trying to treat D-STAR like it wasn't source-routed and adding software to make it act like an analog system, is what got us to this so-called "problem" in the first place, not the other way around. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [email protected]<mailto:nate%40natetech.com>
