Now that you're aware, I suspect you'll find that the Kenwood offering does not handle mixed mode as well.
'JK --- In [email protected], Dennis <wa7...@...> wrote: > > 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 [email protected] > > <mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com>, Scott Zimmerman > > <n3xcc@> 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 > > > > >
