Hello, I would say I'm new to D-Star, but as I haven't purchased any D-Star compatible equipment yet, I suppose even that would be premature!
As many hams have done I'm trying to do my homework on how the whole deal works in general, and also in "specific" with the standard memories on the 880 and 2820. But at least one item remains unclear to me on both radios. I'm intentionally ignoring the DR mode on the 880, unless somehow it applies directly to my question. I understand the various callsign lists one can populate. But what of the interaction with standard memories? For example, if I am operating D-Star from the VFO with manual callsigns configured, and I save the VFO to a standard memory channel, how (if at all) do the callsigns save to the memory? Ok, now what if I configure the VFO *with* callsigns from callsign memory and save the memory channel. Does anything change from the first example? Does the standard memory somehow link to the callsign memory to say, "ok, memory, use callsigns U04, R02, etc on this memory slot..." Is it as simple as each stored standard memory takes state of the active callsigns, and writes those to memory along with the frequency data? Or does it somehow interact with the callsign memories at a higher level? In the 2820's manual it doesn't list anything D-Star specific when it talks about what information is saved in memory. I haven't checked the 880's. Thanks, Jeff KG8IU
