Hi all, I'm busy scraping together money for a D-STAR radio. Someone has loaned me a dongle, and I've been playing around with that. I'm reading up on D-STAR as much as I can. I have a couple questions:
I've read about the various Trust Servers, and I'm curious how it all works. I read that there is such a thing as a "multi-trust" gateway, which can't communicate with a gateway using the K5TIT Trust Server. I also read that there is some work-around so that Japanese stations and US stations (and presumably stations on gateways in other countries that use the K5TIT Trust Server) can talk. Is there a list somewhere of the other major Trust Servers, and what countries they serve, and whether they have agreements with the K5TIT Trust Server? Mainly I'm just curious about which gateways I can talk to, and which I can't. (I heard about the unique situation in France.) My next question concerns D-STAR reflectors. I know that reflectors are made possible by DPlus, thanks to Robin AA4RC. I presume that these reflectors are just computers in server rooms with good internet connections, and that a reflector doesn't have to be connected to an ID-RP2C repeater controller. I'm curious, is there a list of who sponsors and pays for these reflectors? It must be expensive to keep a colocated server going, and I would like to know whom to thank. 73, - Rob W7GH
