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by kb9mwr
Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:50 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: ASTRO Ham Band Repeaters (NATIONWIDE LIST)
Replies: 36
Views: 95821

Re: IL Astro Repeaters

And as listed elsewhere, a neatly done list. http://www.p25ham.com/ It wanted a username and password just to see the home page. Not a friendly bunch, I take it. Naw, the website went down. I was hoping to find a Google cache of the page to stick up on my website as a mirror. Perhaps the websites a...
by kb9mwr
Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:31 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: DV Dongle
Replies: 13
Views: 39208

Re: DV Dongle

Has anyone else experimented with the DVDongle? I've been following a number of groups, of which I will share my top ones here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dstar_development/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gmsk_dv_node/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rtpDir/ -D-Star-IRLP-Echolink-Asterisk brid...
by kb9mwr
Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:57 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Please Edumacate me...
Replies: 60
Views: 128632

Re: Please Edumacate me...

Sorry about that, thanks for correcting me. Eitherway bps or baud, it's still pathetic and utterly useless
by kb9mwr
Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:48 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Please Edumacate me...
Replies: 60
Views: 128632

D-Star is a disappoitment

http://www.geocities.com/kb9mwr/brown-star.jpg Sorry, but I need to vent: D-Star is only a 4800 baud total data stream equivalent signal. 2400 baud is reserved for actual digital voice, 1200 baud is reserved for FEC (forward error correction) on the digital voice. (This is for callsign and short me...
by kb9mwr
Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:04 pm
Forum: EQUIPMENT REVIEWS
Topic: IC-706MKll
Replies: 5
Views: 15696

I think FM was an after-thought. The problem is in the squelch circuitry. It has no hysteresis. It acts like an RF squelch control, like you'd expect on HF. Majorly annoying mobile like you point out.