First off Randall , it's not a waste of band width, Dstar runs Skinny Band (Narrow Band FM) at 2.5 KHz Div. I don't want to put you in to info-overload, but there's a group of hams who are running the dstar vocoder (AMBE-2020) on hf now.....
It's not a money for options deal here. I applaud your questions, but your also jumping on a horse that's in the barn asleep still too... Please slow down, I am having to play catch up with all your questions, yet your pulling the firing cord on the canon and blowing us out of the water too.... 1) you asked about messaging with dstar to aprs.. Pete answered it correctly. NO 2) Can dstar do messaging? Myself and others answered, YES. 3) Is it anything like cellular SMS??? LOL, ok, now it's getting into what came first the chicken or the egg? Yes we can, but your going to get bored with the answer we give. 4)MEATY QUESTION!!! YEAH! Can you scan with the 2820??? YES, I scan the railroad AAR channels and scan my local dstar channels (4 sites mind you) I scan AFMARS repeters that are now Narrow Band FM, I have over 375 channels programmed into my 2820, almost half more then my commercail Kenwood TK-7180 and my TK-8180 UHF radio and hand-held. Do I mention I scan more crap then I could ever listen to in a 30 second time frame, and use my 2820 to decode Rail Road ATCS activities on 900 MHz to my laptop using the PACKET RADIO connection on the radio too.... (which btw will do 1200 or 9600 baud AX.25 Packet) OH CRAP, another can of worms, Randall, you can hook up a tiny2, to your dstar radio and do aprs on both sides, APRS and D-PRS. Not to over load the mind, but the 2820 wont clean the kitchen nor will it replace the common house wife. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! NOW, a meaty note to you, YOU CAN NOT USE D-STAR ON BOTH BANDS, the radio will only decode one band or the other, not both at the same time. Evans -----Original Message----- From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dstar_digi...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of n0uyx Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 9:41 AM To: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com Subject: {Disarmed} [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: D-STAR to APRS MSG and visa-versa Great so it is more like a display MSG or Beacon text that is sent with every transmission? You know I really must say what in the name of HAYDEES was ICOM thinking when they opened this can O worms? But to go DIGITAL and leave out MSG capabilities is really really a waste of band width wouldn't you say? I mean if you are putting so much info in such little space why wasn't that part of the idea? Look at the open possibilities that could be added if they had only left room for that? Sure would have been nice to have one mode that would have done it all huh? So it seems we will still have to have our FM Voice radio, D-Star Radio and APRS Radio if we want to be able to run all modes. Plus an HF Rig of course. =D So can the D-Star dual band rig scan FM Repeaters on the Sub Band and run D-Star on the Main band? Thanks Pete for understanding my frustrations too! =D Randall
