I was not aware that Icom sells a NXDN repeater. I thought that was a Kenwood product.
Dennis Jeff wrote: > > > You might want to consider going with NXDN, then. Icom's NXDN > repeaters _are_ mixed mode, and will repeat what they hear, analog or > digital. Not only that, the corresponding mobiles an portables will > also respond with what they hear, so there's no need to switch to your > analog-programmed channel to reply to an analog call if you've been > working digital, for example. > > 'JK > > --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com>, Scott Zimmerman > <n3...@...> wrote: > > > > My biggest problem with the D-Star repeaters is that they didn't make > > them analog compatible. Knowing as little as I do about the D-star > > hardware, it would seem easy enough for Icom to have done so. All they > > would have needed to do would have been to look at the incoming signal, > > see if it was analog or digital, and process it correctly. > > > > While you'll pry my analog repeater pairs from my cold dead hands; if > > D-Star machines were analog capable, I'd swap every pair I have to that > > format tomorrow. As RB (the company) I have been asked about D-star > more > > times than I can count. I tell people it's nice to play with, but what > > happens in an emergency? > > > > If Icom would have made the D-star machines analog capable, those that > > wanted to (and had D-star radios) could play with it all they wanted > to. > > When an emergency arose and you had 10x as many people out there with > > analog rigs, the machine would *still* be useful. As it is at present, > > if an emergency arises, only those with D-star rigs can use a D-star > > machine. That concept is fine, as long as ALL of your volunteers have > > D-Star radios! (How many places is this the case?) > > > > Around here (Western PA) the governments bought Icom D-Star radios for > > RACES. I had no objection to that since those radios can be used in > > analog modes with analog repeaters. Now they are wanting to get D-Star > > repeaters for RACES and emergency use. I *strongly* object to that > since > > they CANNOT be used in analog modes for emergencies. In my view, you'd > > be alienating much of your volunteer base that doesn't have the correct > > equipment right at the point where you need all the help you can > get! Of > > course with the government in the mentality that they have been in the > > past few years, maybe that's their way of "thinning the heard." > > > > I *think* I remember someone saying that some other company had made an > > analog capable D-Star controller? Do any of you list members know > > anything about that? > > > > Scott > > > > Scott Zimmerman > > Amateur Radio Call N3XCC > > 474 Barnett Road > > Boswell, PA 15531 > >
