Manos Darkadakis wrote: > > > Hello Mark and thanks for the info. > I know of such links, as a matter of fact we are going to use one in > 5 GHz to have internet available at the D-Star site on top of a 3500 > ft mountain here in Athens. The other end will be at our headquarters > where the computer with CentOs 5.1 is waiting for the G2 software to > arrive. > But as I have been informed these solutions are not a direct > replacement for Icom's 10 GHz links as the protocol they use, is not > open. So people is rathe expanding their intranet, behind their > intenet router, where all different sites meet together and with the > Internet. This is some sort of solution but it isn't really what Icom > calls "Zone", I think > > Finally on the CEPT matter, US Hams are accepted in Greece under > CEPT. Where did you get the info that they are not? Others have come > and worked without problems. Please see our official site: > > http://www.raag.org/licensing_en.html > <http://www.raag.org/licensing_en.html> > and call me if you come again and need help or just having an eyeball > > We have the first Greek D-Star system active and is covering Spetses > as well, look here: http://www.raag.org/D-star_en.htm > <http://www.raag.org/D-star_en.htm> > > 73 Manos SV1IW
Manos, What Mark's trying to say is that the cost of another controller, PC, and another pair of inexpensive unlicensed microwave links over TCP/IP is often less than half the price of the Icom 10 GHz links... making the product not very useful to any of us who have the skills to set up a successful microwave shot. With Icom's pricing here in the U.S. running close to $10,000 for the 10 GHz link, it's very easy to engineer a solution that's less than half of that and use two callsigns, two gateways, two controllers and have virtually the same functionality. Nate WY0X
