[WARC] D-Star

[Erik Brom]

Good point on having everything at one site.  Its convenient, though, 
because its a nice site where we could get the antenna up high.


At 09:39 PM 08/24/08, you wrote:
>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 fragile to me, if a storm takes down that tower. I think 
>the digital and analog infrastructures 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 with 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 might want to answer, however.
>
>Then it might simply be a case of where we want to invest our time 
>rather than what legal constraints there might be.
>
>-Les
>
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>From: <mailto:ewbrom at hbci.com>Erik Brom
>To: <mailto:warc at lists.w0ne.org>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-Star ad, I wondered if we could put a 1296 D-Star digital node at 
>the KAGE site, and then interconnect it with D-Star Analog repeater 
>modules (which I thought I remembered seeing).   So we could 
>continue to run our existing FM systems, but interconnect them with 
>the digital network.
>
>Doing some surfing now, I was unable to turn up any D-Star analog 
>repeater 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 single 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 manufacturer.  Contrast this to APRS.  The *protocol* is 
>published, and there are a bunch 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 me a better "warm & fuzzy" feeling about this?
>
>Erik
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