Here's what's funny about the price options on NXDN… I can't talk for kenwood, I don't have any of theirs.

Icom repeaters are approx $700 - all you need is a UR-FR6000 (or 5000 if you want vhf), I've picked those up for that price and less a few times. That's everything with controller, add duplexer, power supply and antenna and you are on the air. Those are 25w 100% duty cycle repeaters. While the HT's are a bit expensive, the mobiles are cheaper than d-star mobiles.

NXDN is quite good at extending the footprint of an analog system. I can't speak for the other commercial gear, but for NXDN, that's 1/2 the price of a d-star repeater, way better equipment, and you can do both 25khz FM and 6.25 digital on them so transition for a user base is extremely easy…

Ok, I suppose we better turn this back to app_rpt talk and not create another repeater builder. If anyone want NXDN info, contact me off list.

Oh, and for the question, yes, you can do native IP based NXDN linking… my repeaters in Atlanta, are linked to Ohio and to FLA. And while not too flexible at the moment, we are working on that.

Lastly, aside from the DVSI chip, which everyone else uses as well, the nxdn specs were just released a month ago, which opens all kinds of possibilities.

Doing nxdn to dstar…. why bother, scrap the dstar gear and just get nxdn gear, that's what quite a number of places are doing!....

Alan

From: app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey S. Carrier
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 1:40 AM
To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] d-star?

Funny, my machine is co-located with amateur and commercial equipment with no issues what-so-ever.  I’m also running 100 watt MTR3000’s right along side CDR700’s less than 1 meg apart with no problems.  P25 will be TDMA in the next few years too.  Nobody bashed NXDN but you have to have a heck of a budget to get into a system like that.  KW’s amateur line is awesome but I’ve never been a fan of their commercial line…but that’s just “my” opinion and you know what they say about opinions.

Jeff