At 9/5/2007 12:45 PM, you wrote: >4. It does NOT carry out point-to-point communications over amateur >frequencies, but rather, over a LAN, WAN, or the internet.
Not true; it uses a combination of both. If there were no TX or RX involved, then yes it would be only using internet & no license would be required. > On the RF side, it is STRICTLY user-access. I maintain that it > therefore does NOT meet the definition of an auxiliary station. Our local OOs do not share your conclusion. >5. According to one of the postings on Icom's D-Star forums, the >developer(s) of D-Star have ALWAYS envisioned and called it a repeater >system, as does the current sole vendor, Icom. Yes it may be a repeater, but it's also an auxiliary station. Bob NO6B
