I have D-Star because I like learning about the technology but I think it will have very little use for the average Ham mentality, especially the newbee's. We still cannot get them on 220 or 6 meters. Most are on PTT 2 meters a few on 440. Took a long time to get them to discover Simplex instead of talking to next door thru a 4 state repeater.. Most hams I know do not know what all D-star will do and knock it because it cost more. Seems to be a solution for a non existent problem. My next radio will be a ID-1, so I will have another radio I can not find any one to talk to. But I get to play with the technology and talk to my self.. That is what I liked about Packet. I could link to my self thru several states and not find any one but me. But I could send packets to my self. all the way from NV to Idaho and back thru Utah. Then the Net Rom nuts took over and screwed up Hams doing it there selves. Then no one understood how it worked. Dale
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve" < kb9mwr @yahoo.com> To: " dstar digital" < dstar _digital@ yahoogroups .com> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 9:03:18 PM ( GMT-0800 ) America/ Los_Angeles Subject: [ dstar _digital] Re: Article in Popular Communications
