Hi Kris, A D-STAR repeater never decodes the voice, it just bit regenerates the signal back to the data stream. Yet it is a repeater for sure per the FCC. I would say a linear transponder or translator is a repeater also. the transmit part is active while the receive part is picking up the signal. 73, Tom n4zpt
Kris Kirby wrote: > The only interesting wrinkle in this is that a linear transponder > doesn't "retransmit". The signal is never decoded to baseband and > retransmitted. > > Or is it? With I+Q demodulation and remodulation, this could be a point > of argument. > > -- > Kris Kirby, KE4AHR > Disinformation Analyst
