Gayle,
The last Dstar repeater in Houston was removed from service nearly 2 years ago. As already mentioned. But you can get a hotspot to allow access, and get you into the Dstar world through the internet, in the interim. We also have a Multimode repeater on the SW side of town that has DMR, Dstar, and Fusion on it, on 145.47, but it’s currently no longer linked into the internet at this time. It’s also having an issue being de-sensed by itself, until we can get the duplexers changed out, so you have to be pretty close to the repeater for that to work. I also have a pair of repeaters on the NW side here, that also support DMR, Fusion, Dstar, Analog, and almost finished with M17 as well, but it’s currently at the house here at only 30 feet until we get it to a much taller location in a few months. So the range is only about 8 or 10 miles at this time. While most all hotspots will let you cross mode from or to DMR and Fusion, only the OpenSpot 3 or 4Plus support the ability to transcode from Dstar to the other modes like DMR and Fusion. There are some reflectors and talkgroups that are bridged, so if you can get to one of those, you could be liked to other environments as well. Ie.. I have the following environments bridged together at this time for the Amsat environments. DMR-Amsat-98006, YSF-Fusion-US-Amsat-11689, and Dstar REFSAT, DCSSAT, XRFSAT, and XLXSAT, on module C. So if you access ANY of these, you will be transcoded to ALL of the others. Sorry for the long answer to your simple question, but I hope it helps. All the best, Walter/K5WH From: BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org> On Behalf Of Gayle Dotts via BVARC Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 10:56 PM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <bvarc@bvarc.org> Cc: Gayle Dotts <gayle.do...@gmail.com> Subject: [BVARC] Icom 52A Just got an Icom ID-52A yesterday. What repeater frequency for DStar are you all tapping into? Gayle WB5DOT
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