They certainly do Adrian.
I talk for the UK repeaters, nothing at 25W ERP (our legal max limit) as far as
I know can even touch the homebrew boxes in comparison.
Will have to have a chat when I get back home soon.
Neil.
G7EBY.
----- Original Message -----
From: Adrian
To: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: New guy
On 01/20/2010 06:52 AM, Neil wrote:
Hmmmm...
If Icom themselves aren't interested in showing off their kit, then open
source/homebrew it must be.
Would't it be good if there was an Icom stand next to a homebrew D-Star
repeater group, one side costs thousands, the other, less than $100. I think
the message is clear, I know what I'd rather have, a sub $100 box that out
performs well an expensive piece of junk that doesn't work 1/2 as well.
I talk from experiance too, if I could actually say there was an Icom VHF
box over here that works as well as any of the homebrew ones over here, then I
would not have to make this statement.
GB3WE is proof of this, just worked it today almost 100 miles away, show me
an Icom box that will do the same...
I work VK4RWN (Icom stack) from 100 mile here and VK3RMM (Icom stack) has
been worked from 200 mile.
From what I hear Icom have improved the jumpers etc in the modules on the
current market.
Location location Location, the success of a repeater is the same as for real
estate hihi.
Its good to see new development at an economic levels, as long as it complies
with Trust server
and dstar standards.
vk4tux
