On May 9, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Ron Wright wrote: > Nate, > > The Space Suttle is reverse engineerable :). Anything is. Doing it > can be a problem.
LOL! Yep. Time is my constraint, not so much the "doing it" part. > About anything done in radio these days is really pretty simple to > reverse engineer if one wants to take the time. Good data > encryption is little more difficult. > > However, it would be easier to build ones own D-Star control. > Reverse engineering the comm between the controller and rigs only > gets you that info still being tied to the controller. This D-Star > data stream is a standard and can be decoded if you wish. The reason to reverse-engineer Icom's "stuff" is that you want whatever you come up with to be backward compatible to their Gateway system. Or you'll find yourself with a one-repeater network and no one to talk to. :-) > The Gateway has been reversed engineered and products marketed to > users allowing getting on without a radio and repeater. Kinda. The gateway code itself is partially reverse-engineered, and Robin literally built a packet-sniffer into dplus, he didn't "crack into" the gateway code, he just nabs the packets going by to the gateway code and does "other things" with them, including handling connections to DV-DONGLE users. Users on the repeater can keep DV-DONGLE users from hearing them at all, by not setting the Gateway callsign as RPT2 in their rigs. It's not "perfect", but it's workable and a damn sight better than not having it at all! http://www.opendstar.org/tools/readme.txt - that's the README file from dplus... and shows the things it can do. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
