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QST, QST:

Alex (KQ2H) / repeater net owner has just installed a Dstar receive site on the top of the Empire state building in NYC.

I don't have an ICum radio so I don't really care, but for you that do and your in or around NYC, NJ and upstate (its a wide area link) check it out.. The frequencies are on his website which I forget but can easily be googled.

When he gets P25 going, THEN I will pay attention. :baby:
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So he put a RX... how nice... how about a repeater? :)

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It's a repeater "system" there dingleberry... The DStar is just a link into the system of repeaters. UHF, VHF and LowBand I think.
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JAYMZ wrote:It's a repeater "system" there dingleberry... The DStar is just a link into the system of repeaters. UHF, VHF and LowBand I think.
Yeh he has VHF via W2FLA, UHFs all over NYC and a 10 and 6 meter link.
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Ummmm...That's great, but is the rest of the system D-Star or just the one receiver?

If he doesn't have a D-star tranmitter as well, then what is the use.

If on the other hand it is the entire repeater tied into the rest of his repeaters, then I see...
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ka8ypy wrote:
If on the other hand it is the entire repeater tied into the rest of his repeaters, then I see...
It is.
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ka8ypy wrote:Ummmm...That's great, but is the rest of the system D-Star or just the one receiver?

If he doesn't have a D-star tranmitter as well, then what is the use.

If on the other hand it is the entire repeater tied into the rest of his repeaters, then I see...
Exactly my point I was trying to make. Thanks Dan and JLX for the info.

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k2jlx wrote: a Dstar receive site
That statement lends to the logic that it is only receiving DStar, and not retransmitting it. Which to me makes no sense. But it's a citiot with lots of money to spend. And it's really not doing anything for the system up here at all. So, I'm not terribly impressed. A receive site for something that I don't plan on using that is 100+ miles from me. zzzzZZZZzzzzZZZz
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Sorry for the confusion, it seems that the Empire antenna base is currently the only place you can get into his system with DStar; which is pretty handy if your in Manhattan, but as JAYMZ points out, not much good up here in the rolling hills upstate.

Who knows, maybe all his $$'s will afford him more DStar sites dotted around the area, frankly its all rather moot to me too. For me; the P25 repeater in Warwick NY is much more interesting :baby:
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please explain

isit a dstar stsyem or analog system?


or did dude just put up a single dstar reapeater

or did you already answer that and my fever is kicking in
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n3jfw wrote:please explain

isit a dstar stsyem or analog system?


or did dude just put up a single dstar reapeater

or did you already answer that and my fever is kicking in
Apparently dude added a D-Star repeater, and linked it in to his other analog repeaters in the area (right?)
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ka8ypy wrote: Apparently dude added a D-Star repeater, and linked it in to his other analog repeaters in the area (right?)
Yes, thats it.
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Analog & D-star on the same input of 444.225

Analog & D-star voice is sent out on both outputs

D-star output of 439.225

Analog output of 449.225


You don't get all of the other stuff that D-star can do, and it's sure not a mixed mode repeater either, but it is interesting.
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FYI, the D-Star transmitter was disabled on the system a few months back - a result of a rather ridiculous unfolding of behavior involving a user's reaction to taunts over the performance of their spanky new iCOM $500 HT.

Anyway, while I'm at it, a plug for the KQ2H repeater Yahoo! group - lots of system docs, photos, ghey polls, and more. Check it out if you use the system or are in the NYC metro area.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kq2h_repeater/
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n3wrx wrote:FYI, the D-Star transmitter was disabled on the system a few months back - a result of a rather ridiculous unfolding of behavior involving a user's reaction to taunts over the performance of their spanky new iCOM $500 HT.

Anyway, while I'm at it, a plug for the KQ2H repeater Yahoo! group - lots of system docs, photos, ghey polls, and more. Check it out if you use the system or are in the NYC metro area.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kq2h_repeater/

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k2jlx wrote:
n3wrx wrote:FYI, the D-Star transmitter was disabled on the system a few months back - a result of a rather ridiculous unfolding of behavior involving a user's reaction to taunts over the performance of their spanky new iCOM $500 HT.

Anyway, while I'm at it, a plug for the KQ2H repeater Yahoo! group - lots of system docs, photos, ghey polls, and more. Check it out if you use the system or are in the NYC metro area.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kq2h_repeater/

<SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE> An Astro repeater input into Alex's system would be the bollocks.</SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE>
ITA. Imagine a P25 receiver at the Woodstock site on 10m (is there P25 equipment that'll do 10m?)? I'm sure that would be amazing.
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Looks like they're adding a 220 machine up closer to your neck of the woods - at least that is a nice quiet band. Linked to KQ2H, though Alex and Sherman haven't worked out exactly how yet.

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..and 6 meter also I hear..big plans.. well both sherman and alex have the moolah to make it happen.
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k2jlx wrote: <SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE> An Astro repeater input into Alex's system would be the bollocks.</SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE>
Now's our chance! I was talking with Alex last night - he is amenable to experimenting with P25, so long as we pitch in ($) on the gear.

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Post by mr.syntrx »

Speaking of D-Star, what's with the bullshit design of Icom's 23cm repeaters?

They should build that gear like a microwave system (seeing as that's what it is, L-band microwave), with an IDU containing the smarts, and an ODU consisting of a block up/down convertor and power amplifier mounted right near the antenna, with 70MHz IF between the two. Saves having to pay for LDF6-50 (which is like $10 a foot) if you want to mount the antenna a couple hundred feet up.
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