[WARC] D-Star

[Leslie Hittner]

I wonder about putting all our eggs into one "KAGE" basket. If we lose the =
KAGE site, we would then lose all of our infrastructure. Seems a bit fragil=
e to me, if a storm takes down that tower. I think the digital and analog i=
nfrastructures should be independent and should be linked only through the =
internet or the "ether."

I think we can develop our own server software. It's our call as to whether=
 we use what ICOM has to offer. There doesn't seem to be the same licensing=
 issue...That is, if we want to write our own we can do so in accordance wi=
th the D-Star specification. I don't know what routines are available from =
ICOM and what or how we might duplicate them. Those are questions that we m=
ight want to answer, however.

Then it might simply be a case of where we want to invest our time rather t=
han what legal constraints there might be.

-Les

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  From: Erik Brom =

  To: warc at lists.w0ne.org =

  Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:12 PM
  Subject: [WARC] D-Star


  After Les's presentation Thursday, and remembering back to an early D-Sta=
r ad, I wondered if we could put a 1296 D-Star digital node at the KAGE sit=
e, and then interconnect it with D-Star Analog repeater modules (which I th=
ought I remembered seeing).   So we could continue to run our existing FM s=
ystems, but interconnect them with the digital network.

  Doing some surfing now, I was unable to turn up any D-Star analog repeate=
r hardware, so its apparently not possible.

  I came across some other things though, such as references to proprietary=
 software available (only) from Icom, the codec issue of course, and a sing=
le central server system that manages the linking between systems.  =


  All of this really bothers me, as not being "The Amateur Way".  It sounds=
 to me more like we are buying a commercial system from a single manufactur=
er.  Contrast this to APRS.  The *protocol* is published, and there are a b=
unch of manufactures of hardware and software that support it, and lots of =
ways hams can set up new ways of using it.  =


  Although the technology and capabilities of D-star sound cool, something =
just isn't sitting right with me.  Am I right or wrong?  Can someone give m=
e a better "warm & fuzzy" feeling about this?

  Erik

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