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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Ok, so I've been playing with Ramesh's Free*Star distribution. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">And</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> it got me to thinking… </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I wonder, if you used an RTCM to take the analog signal off a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">n Analog FM</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> repeater from a D-Star transmitter (assuming you were coming off the discriminator at the repeater)…. And you pushed that audio across the internet back to your allstar box. Now on a separate node, you used a URI to interconnect to a GMSK node adapter</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">. You then created a link between the RTCM and the URI/GSMK modem.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri"> I wonder if all the timing/codec compression/decompression, etc would render th</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">e</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> captured</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">D-Star</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">audio useless such that the URI to GMSK couldn't decode it? </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">What I'm thinking is if you were running Free*Star on the same box as Allstar (or a separate one), potentially, you could then serve the data to the D-Star environments and back.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> All using AllStar for *linking* thereby getting</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">rid</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> of this whole D-Star linking stuff (callsign hell)…. One thing I don't know is about DTMF to link setup, etc. (but let's</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">ignore</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> that for a minute).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">There are obviously issues with separating the FM non-D-Star users from the D-Star uses</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">at the repeater</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">to route one to one RTCM and one to another.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I'm just wondering if anyone has wandered this path already and proved or dis-proved the potential theory?</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Yeah, I know, I have way too much spare time on my hands…. But hey, it's ham radio right? :).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Alan</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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