On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 08:56:02PM -0700, bruce mallon wrote: > "EchoLink? Sure. D-Star? Not repeaters. Repeaters can't operate there." > I don't remember saying anything about repeaters on 145.500 -145.800
How much D-Star simplex work is there? D-Star is not anywhere near as useful without a repeater and Internet gateway than it is with one. > Now IF D-Star started using 146.400 -146.600 for inputs and > 147.400-147.600 for outputs and simply sqashed all analog simplex how long > before the FCC would step in ? The FCC *doesn't care*. That's a matter for hams to work out among themselves. > See my point is Keep the digital and echo-link?on a part of the band that > has no one else on and let the repeater groups work out freeing up pairs > and there IS NO PROBLEM ..... You can't keep D-Star out of the repeater band. -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC at K6ZC port B http://www.conmicro.com http://www.k6zc.org http://www.tronguy.net http://jmaynard.livejournal.com (Yes, that's me!) http://www.hercules-390.org
