[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: D-STAR to APRS MSG and visa-versa

2009-01-26 Thread n0uyx
Right it totaly makes sense now because they two aren't equal but see that was my whole point of investigating this. Because I just did a Presentaion on APRS and that was a question that came up. APRS versus D-Star and all I knew at the time was that D-Star could send MSG from one radio to the

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: D-STAR to APRS MSG and visa-versa

2009-01-26 Thread n0uyx
Man you guys are killing me. Do we or do we not have MSG capapbilities. Crap how many times do I have to ask this question? OMG! If you can add a MSG in the text of a beacon or whatever you guys call then yes it can be done. I don't need to know your term for it just yes or no will do. If I tell

{Disarmed} [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: D-STAR to APRS MSG and visa-versa

2009-01-26 Thread n0uyx
But that is APRS which has nothing to do with D-Star. Anybody can do that without a radio. If you loose the Internet connection what happens? You loose the MSG capabilities? Then how are you sending D- Star MSG? Thru the Terminal program still? If so then great it can be done what a freaking long

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: D-STAR to APRS MSG and visa-versa

2009-01-26 Thread Peter Loveall
--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, n0uyx n0...@... wrote: [Moderator: Simple answer Yes] Actually, moderator, the simple answer is no. The front panel message is not a message but a comment that is repeated as long as you are transmitting and is -not- passed to the Icom serial port. It

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: D-STAR to APRS MSG and visa-versa

2009-01-26 Thread Jay Maynard
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:40:34PM -, n0uyx wrote: So can the D-Star dual band rig scan FM Repeaters on the Sub Band and run D-Star on the Main band? The IC-2820H can. -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC at K6ZC port Bhttp://www.conmicro.com http://www.k6zc.org

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: D-STAR to APRS MSG and visa-versa

2009-01-26 Thread John Hays
Pete, I understand where you are coming from, and you are right to differentiate what is in the protocol. However, if you are looking for the one word answer, you can, from a practical point of view, send a message over D-STAR. It may require an external program like D- RATS, but it can

Re: {Disarmed} [DSTAR_DIGITAL]

2009-01-26 Thread john_ke5c
Why do people change the Subject to the message? This wrecks threads and makes following them very difficult because it becomes fragmented. Most of the time I have seen it done the subject of the thread has changed. Yahoo has groups have messages, but Yahoo is not suited to be thread-based

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] D-Star Repeater System

2009-01-26 Thread Vicky Bagwalla-VA3VJB
Hello Group, Does anyone know of a link that will explain step by step what equipment I need to set up a D-STAR repeater system? Thanks and 73 Vicky Bagwalla VA3VJB blog: http://va3vjb.blogspot.com == [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

RE: {Disarmed} [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: D-STAR to APRS MSG and visa-versa

2009-01-26 Thread Barry A. Wilson
Randall, D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) is a digital voice and data protocol specification developed as the result of research by the Japan Amateur Radio League to investigate digital technologies for amateur radio. It connects repeater sites over microwave and internet

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] D-Star Repeater System

2009-01-26 Thread John Hays
The hardware part is relatively simple, assuming you are not rolling your own: - 1 or more repeater/access modules ID-RP2000V, ID-RP4000V, ID-RP1V, ID-RP1D (up to 4 on a controller) - A controller: ID-RP2C Once you have those in hand, the rest is pretty much standard repeater building

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Orlando Hamfest

2009-01-26 Thread beamar
The West Central Florida D Star Club will have a booth at the Orlando Hamfest, Feb. 13~15. We would like to invite everyone to visit our booth. We also could use some help staffing the booth. The only requirment is to be somewhat knowledgable about D Star and be willing to talk to people and

RE: {Disarmed} [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: D-STAR to APRS MSG and visa-versa

2009-01-26 Thread Nate Duehr
D-STAR (the protocol) defines a continuous voice and data stream during ALL transmissions for DV mode. (We'll focus on DV, but DD is high speed wide-area IP/Internet and works far better than non-native IP protocols for interfacing with just about *everything* today.) How you decide to USE

RE: {Disarmed} [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: D-STAR to APRS MSG and visa-versa

2009-01-26 Thread Evans Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA4TH FL / WQFK-894
LAY MANS TERM: Can You use D-STAR to send text messages? YES. Next question: HOW? This will take a while, but when your ready, I (Evans) would be willing to set up something somewhere and show you Are you coming to the Orlando ham fest? YES? I will be there, I will show you. NO? no

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Orlando Hamfest

2009-01-26 Thread Bob Cumming
Buddy If I can find some spare time among my HamCation Duties I'll spend a few minutes there. BTW - Icom is loaning us an IC2820 for the Talk In Station. We will be on 147.76 analog FM and 146.82 D-Star for Talk-In. I will set up the 2820 to send the GPS coordinates of the Fairgrounds. I

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] D-Star Repeater System

2009-01-26 Thread OD5RW
Hello John If I read you well, you mentioned the option of : rolling our own ??? Can we roll our own hardware ? Is there a way around buying the whole bunch ? If not, then can we use just an ID-RP2C to create a simplex gateway without a repeater, say connecting it to an IC-2200 with a UT-118 ?

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: D-STAR to APRS MSG and visa-versa

2009-01-26 Thread Evans Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA4TH FL / WQFK-894
First off Randall , it's not a waste of band width, Dstar runs Skinny Band (Narrow Band FM) at 2.5 KHz Div. I don't want to put you in to info-overload, but there's a group of hams who are running the dstar vocoder (AMBE-2020) on hf now. It's not a money for options deal here. I applaud your

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL]

2009-01-26 Thread Simon Templar
That's just being LAZY! On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:23, Evans Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA4TH FL / WQFK-894 kd4...@polkemcomm.org wrote: because my isp broke it's wonderfully great virus scanner and they can't fix it correctly So no I am not changing the subject line, I just don't remember to