Hello Richie, I am sure you will receive many different but similar replies about range. I am finding coverage very similar to analog except multipath interference seems to affect the dstar digital signal more so than it affects analog. When stationary dstar seems to have a slight advantage in coverage. Not to mention that static, popping, and background noise are replaced by loss of sync, sometimes called r2d2 after the star wars robot character.
Simplex transmissions are still in dstar format and just as in FM you can have a nice round table chat. With internet gateways and reflectors, and such, dstar seems far less tolerant of collisions or doubling on overs, so it is much smoother to direct the next 'over' to a particular station rather than just throwing it in the air for someone to catch. It is not uncommon to not receive an entire transmission when 2 local transmitters collide and the gateway looses the header information. I find the IC2820 particularly difficult to view because of the size of the display especially the UR and RX Message fields that are very small and even with contrast and brightness controls are very difficult to view while driving. Best 73, Steve NU5D richiepet...@btinternet.com wrote: > Hi all, I'm thinking about buying a dstar radio but would like to know the > radio to buy hopefully the experienced dstar users will point me in the right > direction. > > I live about 30 miles from the nearest dstar repeater but am mobile a lot to > and from work which will be great.Are you guys finding the coverage better or > worse than an anologue system as i have heard a 20% greater coverage range > but was wondering if this is true. > > Also if you work simplex is the tx coded and can you still enjoy a digital > rag chew net. > > -- "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." Mother Teresa [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
