I live in the Columbus metro area and like others want to see D Star grow here. I agree with what I read about keeping off 146.52 and even 146.55 and leave those to FM Simplex. Let's continue to use the D Star simplex. I think when the Columbus machines are full gateway there will be a jump in D Star operators and a big drop in the analog systems.
Finally, the Stoutsville Ohio D Star machine is accessible from my house and those folks were eager to have me join them. 73s George, N4DLR From: Dave Tipton, W5DMT Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 1:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Are you exprerencing anti d-star in your area? Columbus is an odd place anyway. I lived there for a few years during college. I suspect that it's like anything else. The mantra is "We fear change". D*Star is not overly popular here in Denton, TX either. (Suburb of Dallas/Fort Worth) However, that doesn't mean we aren't going to utilize it as an additional technology or more importantly, shut down any analog repeaters in the process. Up til a few years ago, many repeater groups even shunned the idea of PL Tones on the output of the repeater, and even more shunned the idea of putting one on the input. (Both ideas that should have been done all along in my opinion.) My point. Most repeaters now, are PL'd where I live. I'm only aware of one in the area that has any real usage that isn't, and it's run by a bunch of old farts who probably think an Icom IC-2AT is the hottest rig they'll ever own. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of davidscott_345 Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 12:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Are you exprerencing anti d-star in your area? 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
