D-Star - Is it worth it?
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| May 14th 2014, 19:59 | |
KD5HIJTotal Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0 |
Considering the purchase of an ICOM ID-880H. The D-Star seems appealing but is it worth it? All opinions welcome. KD5HIJ |
| May 20th 2014, 14:38 | |
KC2UGVTotal Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0 |
I personally do not think it's worth while. Not enough activity in the area, and it's a closed proprietary system, so, I wouldn't shell out extra just for D-Star. |
| Aug 19th 2014, 02:48 | |
WA9WVXTotal Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0 |
Here's the real problem at hand, the Amateur Radio manufactures haven't found a method to design & build a multi-mode Digital transceiver that will operate FDMA, TDMA, CDMA & MFSK (D-Star). Here in northern Illinois there are quite a few D-Star repeaters and the ICOM Product is backwards compatible with Analog FM signals. When System Designers analyzed the basic repeater coverage they would provide coverage as 90%, 70% and 50% for each system. I'll use an example, if the 90% coverage was 25 air miles radius, 70% would be 32 air miles radius and for the 50% would be 37.5 air miles radius for system coverage. Whereas using the Digital D-Star Repeater coverage will be 36.75 air miles radius so using Digitaling signaling provides much better coverage. This reminds me of HF AM versus SSB as that took a few years to take hold and now almost everyone is using the SSB mode. I would invest in D-Star and use the Digital mode for the repeaters and on simplex. |
| Aug 27th 2015, 21:43 | |
AA1PRTotal Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0 |
put up an simple micro node on allstar & be done |
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