Personally I think on the hand of VOIP and Dstar I think the add more
capabilities to ham radio do I think analog will be replaced by digital no now
it might take away some of the experimental band set by arrl which is where it
should be at this early stage of dstar because it is still experimental at this
point in time and please correct me if I am wrong because I am still kinda new
to dstar.
Aaron Siller
N5AMS
Aaron Siller N5AMS
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Homer <[email protected]>
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Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:49:56
To: <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Are you exprerencing anti d-star in your area?
Hi David,
The same was said about Echolink.
People seem to not like the unknown & there was a time Echolink was the
same.
Just ride the wave for a while until people learn or are educated to the
benefits of Dstar - You will find most who oppose it have never tried it!
Steve EI2GYB
On 11/07/10 18:24, davidscott_345 wrote:
>
> I have listened to a couple of conversations on analog 2 meter
> repeaters here in Columbus, Ohio. The gist of the conversations seem
> to be we don't want d-star because they will lose their analog systems.
>
> After hearing this I checked the the 2007-2008 repeater directory.
> Taking into account machines I knew were no longer on the air I
> counted 16 2 meter machines and 22 440 Mhz machines in operation.
>
> There are two d-star systems in Columbus one went up on a new
> frequency pairs on 2m and 440. The other went up on existing 2m and
> 440 repeater pairs. I see that as a net loss to the analog folks as 1
> 2m and 1 440 pair.
>
> When I scan the local analog repeaters only a couple are used a lot.
> There are many that don't have any traffic on them for hours at a
> time. So what do they feel they are losing?
>
> I understand if it is not their cup of tea. I don't feel any hostility
> to CW ops or packet because I don't use those modes so why should they
> feel threatened by dstar.
>
> David Scott N8XYF
>
>
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