As long as D-Star stays off 146.52 no one cares where they rub people the wrong way here is to go on 52 and disrupt the people who are analog users. I rarely use repeaters so if they all went D-Star i would not care. Use 145.67 fill it up nation wide make it work as the D-Star frequency ....
--- On Sun, 7/11/10, Aaron Siller N5AMS <[email protected]> wrote: From: Aaron Siller N5AMS <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Are you exprerencing anti d-star in your area? To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, July 11, 2010, 1:59 PM 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 Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect From: Steve Homer <ei2...@eircom. net> Sender: dstar_digital@ yahoogroups. com Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:49:56 +0100 To: <dstar_digital@ yahoogroups. com> ReplyTo: dstar_digital@ yahoogroups. com 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
