I bet that is what you saw. That is what we do, but we have interfaced a node adapter into a kenwood repeater. Works GREAT!!!
Fran, W1FJM On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:20 AM, ka2ugz <whitej...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > Thanks for the feedback Ed. > > For some reason, maybe terrain of the north shore of Long Island, it is > easier to get to K2DIG than W1NLK from the base antenna. Maybe the line of > sight to NYC is along the south shore which has comparitavely low elevation. > > Our investigation into D-Star a few years back was to spark some use of the > 70cm frequencies. To get that use, we would be making the Icom equipment > investment and everyone in the club would need to buy a radio. So in total, > the investment for the club is steep and we would not really know if there > would be an appreciable increase in repeater activity. > > There are much larger clubs on Long Island with bigger budgets that have > not taken the "plunge" into D-Star and we have wondered why. > > From what I saw demonstrated last weekend, using the node adapter with an > old laptop, two FM-N radios and a duplexer was indeed a repeater pointed to > a reflector. I believe that anyone with a D-Star radio could listen in to > both sides of the conversation through this hot-spot repeater... did I > mis-understand what I saw? > > I believe that a hot-spot repeater pointed at a busy reflector would get > the frequency busy again. > > 73 de KA2UGZ - Jay > >
