Voice mail on a repeater just like our analog repeaters. Still, it is a moot point for a D-STAR repeater as the voice stream is not recorded before being retransmitted.
73, Tom n4zpt Jeff Condit wrote: > 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 > > >
