At 08:17 AM 09/20/07, you wrote:
Hi Steve
You have a lot of valid points. There ought to be a way to create a sub
band within the 2M and 440 repeater pairs for digital. Maybe interstitial.
Who knows. My hope is that people decide on D Star or P25 so we will not
have the old VHS vs Beta thing.
Glenn
N1GBY
And one more point - and it's a major one....
You can get P25 test equipment.
Show me one piece of test equipment - an IFR, an HP, a General Dynamics
(the folks that made some of Motorolas R-series of service monitors) or any
other test equipment manufacturer that makes a dstar tester. Not even
the manufacturer has one.
So haw do you verify that a dstar system is actually working right?
Use a user radio?
Does a user radio give a complete test of a conventional transmitter
the way that a scope-equipped IFR does??
(would you trust a handheld to tell you that your conventional
repeater transmitter deviation was set right?)
