What do you call it when messages are recorded and then retransmission begins right after reception ends? By this definition it would not constitute a "simplex repeater", right?
Jeff Condit ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Azlin, N4ZPT To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:02 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Fw: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] FCC Ruling on Repeater Definition 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
