It's amazing how *spirited* this discussion can get.
I'm certainly NOT proposing it as an *everyone* do…. I did it because I have 3 NXDN repeaters on the air (soon to be 5), the are pretty close cousins to D-STAR *without* all the ugliness of the USTRUST, callsign routing, and the crap that goes on with the politics of D-Star - Can you tell I'm *NOT* a fan.
BUT with that said. I wanted to see how things sounded back and forth and how good I could make them sound. Besides I've met some really great people up in Canada via my setup and so it shall most likely stay for me.
My other motivation…. Seems that the *true* D-Star guys just HATE it when you link analog to digital…. So I'm quite proud of doing it…. I just manage it so that my setup doesn't fall on the REF's or the USTRUST, it's pretty happy to run on the ircddb and XREF/DCS reflectors.
Isn't it great that this hobby is structured to allow tinkering, development, advancement, enjoyment, and having fun…. All those things that it seems some I the D-Star world don't want to happen…. For me, I simply don't get it… present company excluded (hmm, maybe I can't say that I heard that a bunch of allstar guys switched to D-Star…. wow, I don't get that either :))…
Oh, and as for MotoTurbo, I'm afraid it's going to be short lived. Most all the States around here are not granting licenses for anything more than 20-25W on the commercial side. Seems the TDMA causes wicked sideband interference to adjacent channels. It's an intrinsic problem that I don't think can be remedied. Plus I really like being 6.25khz wide NOW, which obviously turbo isn't… it's still a 12.5khz signal that just happens to have 2 TDMA channels running inside of it… :)
Alan
From: Kirk Just Kirk [mailto:wb6egr@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 8:30 PM
To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org; adamson_alan@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] d-star?
MotoTRBO will stay "MOTOTRBO" if I have any say. We have no need/desire for a interconnection to $-Star...
Kirk
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Jeffrey S. Carrier <jeff.carrier@rmsmsecurity.com> wrote:
How about a similar connection to a mototrbo system. That would be cool!
K0jsc
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Adamson [adamson_alan@hotmail.com]
Received: Sunday, 12 Aug 2012, 4:41pm
To: 'Allstar User' [app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org]
Subject: [App_rpt-users] d-star?
I know this is probably old hat to most, but I think I have the world's most
connectable allstar server :)..
I've now got a B and C module of D-star (via freestar*) that I can connect
in, my own experimental XRF reflector, I can cross link analog to digital,
etc. What's most amazing is HOW GOOD IT SOUNDS, when the D-Star audio comes
into the allstar server.
I just decided that I didn't want to do the rptdir thing, so I'm using
chan_dstar and the dextra_client.. And it really sounds good. I'm
scratching my head as to why this was so frowned on in the beginning of time
(not from the allstar guys, but the d-star guys).
Anyway, I think if I had everything connected up, it's like 2 full duplex
repeaters, a full duplex IRLP connection, and a d-star gateway, but 2
simplex bases, one for d-star one for allstar.. Good think I had a whole
bunch of 25W dummy loads :).
since I got everything working, I just figured I'd share. while it wasn't
brain dead easy, it wasn't too difficult either.
Alan
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