From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Woodrick, Ed
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 12:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] I Want To Know???
>>There are over 500 repeaters worldwide and I believe that slightly over
half of that is in the US.
Actually there are many, many more. There are about 500 just on the K5TIT
trust, and there are several other trust networks now. Also, there are
plenty of DVAR (not including hotspots) and non gateway connected repeaters.
Like regular FM, the exact number of Dstar compatible machines is no longer
known.
>>The northeastern corridor has been one of the slowest to adopt D-STAR, but
has increased dramatically since Dayton last year.
It's terribly difficult to get a machine on the air up here. At least in
NYC, finding a frequency, site, not to mention the extremely high cost of
broadband internet access (Verizon charges commercial rates for DSL at
repeater sites up here, so no $20 service, hopefully Clearwire Wi-Max will
launch in a month or two) is an uphill battle.
But now that non Icom solutions for repeaters are available, I'm sure more
systems will pop up.
Gary
KB2BSL/WG2MSK
