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Gordon wrote in news:sIKdnZ_ZU4
: What's next? http://www.tapr.org/pdf/DStar_brochure.pdf Icom and the South Carolina State Emergency Preparedness Division, along with many hospital organizations, is installing a fully-interconnected Icom D-star DIGITAL amateur radio system across our state to interconnect emergency communications people to our extensive network of ham radio operators that did a fantastic, if I may say so myself as a ham, job of providing both health-and-welfare and emergency communications to the people of South Carolina with worldwide service during Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Armed with so many trained emergency radio operators to provide great communications in terrible conditions when normal communications simply were swamped or just failed, EPD has funded many VHF/UHF linked repeater systems across our state over the hurricane-proof Educational Television microwave and fiber optic network. D-star is the latest extension to the already installed system. Not only will it provide voice, but it also provides data streaming right to your ham radio handheld Icom D-star walkie....pretty impressive. http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/12/14/1/?nc=1 Icom is working with hundreds of amateur repeater groups and is funding a great bit of base station hardware to the groups' repeater installations...in hopes, of course, the hams will ante up and buy D- star radios from them, at a profit, over their competitors' equipment, like Yaesu. Icom's laying out a lot of money to make it a reality across the planet. http://www.d-staruk.co.uk/categoryre...ategoryid=3684 http://www.soara.org/dstar/ http://www.washcoares.org/d-star/ico...000V-RP4000VD- Brochure.pdf Of course, just like in the past, commercial communications interests like Marisat and their government regulator lackeys will cause massive footdragging to prevent any such system from becoming a marine radio until it can be hobbled and rendered useless like DSC/GMDSS for boats. Next thing you know, some boater will get the idea he could call home on the D-star data link via Skype for free from 100 miles offshore to the marine radio D-star repeater on top of the 2,200' TV tower....or talk directly to the marina in Charleston from his marine D-star radio in Key West over the internet WITHOUT paying some god-awful $3/min and $100/month fees to some old marine telephone company. We can't have that, can we? Of course not! Dstar CAN provide that internet link to your boat anchored out about 50 miles from a D-star repeater you've been dreaming about. You'll need a ham license....easy to get, now. |
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On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:47:50 +0000, Larry wrote:
Dstar CAN provide that internet link to your boat anchored out about 50 miles from a D-star repeater you've been dreaming about. You'll need a ham license....easy to get, now. What kind of internet link and how fast? Almost all offshore voice communication is being done via satphones these days such as Iridium. Price averages about $1.50/min or less using pre-paid service. The monthly charge can be as low as $35 depending on the plan. While not exactly cheap it is certainly reasonable enough if you need to keep in touch or have an emergency. |
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Wayne.B wrote in
: On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:47:50 +0000, Larry wrote: Dstar CAN provide that internet link to your boat anchored out about 50 miles from a D-star repeater you've been dreaming about. You'll need a ham license....easy to get, now. What kind of internet link and how fast? Almost all offshore voice communication is being done via satphones these days such as Iridium. Price averages about $1.50/min or less using pre-paid service. The monthly charge can be as low as $35 depending on the plan. While not exactly cheap it is certainly reasonable enough if you need to keep in touch or have an emergency. We're limited by bandwidth on the ham bands. On the 1.2Ghz band, the link speed is ISDN speed of 128Kbps...quite respectable for old ham radio! I can remember when I became the first ASCII station on RTTY in the 4th Call District. We went from the limit of 74 baud (bps) Baudot teletype code to 110 baud ASCII. FCC wouldn't let us run 300 bps....too much bandwidth. Look in the brochure at the various speeds on the picture. I posted the URL previously. |
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