John, I currently am Trustee for a TKR-820 operating on 444.5500. I wonder - is this conversion "dual-mode" capable, meaning, can it be accessed BOTH via D-STAR and analog radios, or does it render analog access unusable? I do not want to do this if it eliminates analog access, since this is an Emergency Management-affiliated repeater and many users in my area are not D-STAR capable. As such, I'd have to maintain a dual-mode system, similar to those using Motorola QUANTAR repeaters for digital (APCO 25) as well as analog access.
Next questions is, my machine is a multi-receive site (read: SpectraTAC) system - is the D-STAR processing done on the FINAL received signal before being passed to the transmitter, or would I need to convert all the receivers in the system to be compatible? In my system, I do not use the internal receiver in the TKR-820 - I feed a voted signal in from the comparator for repeat. Photos of my system (with one receiver configured) can be seen at the Repeater-Builder Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/photos/album/613821601/pic/li st Look at those associated with WW9AE If it can be configured for a dual-mode/multi-RX site configuration, I might seriously consider adapting our machine. Thanks! Mark - N9WYS -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] On Behalf Of John My conversion project is at: http://k7ve.org/blog/2010/06/converting-the-kenwood-tkr-820-to-use-with-d-st ar/ 73 de K7VE
