Please forgive my barbaric lack of manners for not introducing, Jerry Lutgring W5JRL on the far left, and Mike Chittenden AE5IV broadcast engineer supremo to the right of Louis. Both of these with whackertastic G*dflashed XTS5K bricks. Speaking of bricks......better get a Sam Brown if you are going ...
I just sold a 2 year old IC-91AD and upgraded to an IC-92AD. It's a quality radio and is easily programmable from the FP, although the realtime environment with the RS-92 software is great.
Saw many on the belts of Motosexuals at Austin Summerfest !
VX, tvsjr, et al, Great to see you all in Plano and while it was not quite as bad as previous years there was still some annealed and case-hardened bromodrosis at the PCC!
Tim, et al, The primary driver is the need (now federal mandate) for spectrum efficiency. A legacy wide voice FM channel in the Part 90 space is replaced by 2 narrowband channels. Narrowband analog FM voice (11K0F3E) has acceptable Q of S especially when companded, but still doesn't have the *punch*...
Icom's ID-800 is shipping in March. This transceiver is a variant of the IC-208 and includes the UT-118 digital voice/data board bundled. The unit includes single band 146 or 440 operation with the following emission types: 20K0F3E 11K0F3E 11K0F7W The perceptual coder is AMBE for the 11K0F7W emissio...
The DStar ethernet bridges are easily overrun with extraneous packets from the WAN side so I recommend that if you are going to connect them to pass Internet data that you NAT the Internet side with some kind of router. I would join the http://www.icomamerica.com/support/forums/ DStar froum at the a...
Icom - IC-2200H is 219.95 VHF 65 watt transceiver Icom - UT-118 is 189.95 DStar CAI card This is the basic DStar configuration for 2 meters. There is not likely to be a lot of other hams on the Dstar CAI yet, but you can find a "bud" who wants to play around and both make the jump. The IC-...