Agree here, if the hams were to look at the Motorola Mototrbo platform they would quickly relize that they would have two voice paths over a narrow band channel. Now take into consideration, two ham clubs wanted the same channel and now they could and both clubs could even talk at the same time. Now you are maximizing the spectrum available and everyone is happy. My preferance is P25 but since you brought up the Mototrbo topic i thought i would chime in. Not to say that the Mototrbo repeater is any better than the ICOM Dstar. when you open both of them all they are basicly is two mobiles. However the Mototrbo does survive on Cheyenne Mt well and i would bet money that the Dstar would fail in a big way using the same filtering. The transmitter on the Mototrbo has an additional heat sink on the transmitter and is well ventilated. With the tx test of over 8hrs at 40wt UHF continious it worked very well. If some were buy mobiles and portables i would put one up here in Denver Metro to play with and compair the ICOM and Motorola to see what works better.
FYI, in late 2009 the ethernet port on the back of the Motorola will be live and networking will be dream, not to mention the ammount of factory support you have available on the Mototrbo. If you want a 100wt continious late 2009 the two slot TDMA board will be available for the MTR2000 as well. Mike Mullarkey K7PFJ -------------- Original message -------------- From: Ron Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D-Star rigs are expensive as Ham Radio rigs, but how expensive is P25 radios??? Can one add a P25 controller to a typical FM repeater or is it like Icom and one must ICOM for all. 73, ron, n9ee/r >From: James Delancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2008/05/09 Fri AM 10:26:43 CDT >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] FCC Denies Petition to Utilize 2m Sub-Band for >Digita > >Sounds like another reason why I don't care to support D-star :) P25 >works so much better (in most cases). I also have a liking for >MotoTrbo, but like D-Star, it is kinda proprietary since no one else >makes radios for it .... oh well. > >James > >just my 2c > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> At 5/9/2008 05:47, you wrote: >> >> >There have been couple analog repeaters converted to D-Star here. >> This has >> >been the most growth. >> >> The problem I see is that in very case where D-Star & analog systems are >> co-located, the analog system significantly outperforms the D-Star >> system. So most analog system owners aren't too keen on downgrading their >> system's coverage. >> >> Bob NO6B >> > Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome.
