Thank you, I appreciate the reply, all that I receive will be incorporated into my presentation. Like Ive said, I need to arm myself for the naysayers who are quick to shoot and I need to have the amo to squelch their assumptions!
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Langdon Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 3:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Please help me support D-Star ... At 10:05 PM 7/29/2010, you wrote: >Greetings to the group, > >My name is Donald ~ N2VU, and I'm in Warren County New York ... the >first to have D-Star in the area. I was on the fence about D-Star >for quite a while until 2 weeks ago and boy do I wish I got into it >sooner. I love it! There's quite a lot going for D-STAR. Just to name a few aspects: Fully digital end to end - it "just works" or it doesn't, no noisy signals (you do get garbled signals, known as "R2D2" after the famous droid when signals hit the digital "cliff"). Simultaneous voice and data. Your radio could be sending GPS position reports (for example), while you're talking. ID is automatic and embedded in the protocol. Higher speed (128kbps) mode available on 1.2 GHz. Many third party applications are available for utilising the data channel (e.g. D-RATS). Really, to me, the ability to be able to send voice and data using the same radio at the same time is one of D-STAR's biggest selling points. The gateway system also has a number of unique features, one of the most useful being the ability to locate a specific user by simply routing to their callsign. If they've been using a gateway (and haven't switched gateways in the last half hour or so), the call will find them if they have their radio on. 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com
