Earl, One does tend to wonder where the concept came from. But from my understanding, it fits the way that Japanese Amateurs operate. They operate different from us, things like nets just aren't done over there (from my understanding). Users don't own more than 1 radio, and the most common radio is probably the ID-1. They have a limited number of repeaters and a nationwide standard channel configuration. They aren't really mobile, they don't move between repeaters. And they are still on the first version of the gateway and unable to link repeaters together.
They also do make use of the zone feature in Japan and in some cases have the very expensive 10Gbps links in place. But Icom does realize that the remainder of the world is very different and hence the new programming in the 80/880 series which was designed for everyone else. Too bad they pretty will missed the mark on the features. Now it's only marginally useful for anyone. (Yes it does work, but with a few changes, it could have been infinitely more useful) Actually the way that routing is done in D-STAR is much better than the routing done in the basic AX.25 protocol. In AX.25, you had to specify each node along a path. The additional protocol stacks like KA-Node and others act a little more like D-STAR routing in that once connected to the network, you then specify the destination and the network automatically figures out how to get there. Ed WA4YIH From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dstar_digi...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Earl Needham Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:27 AM To: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: New guy Re: call sign routing -- it sounds to me like the routing that was envisioned for AX.25 packet radio -- which never quite happened. 7 3 Earl "The original new guy" KD5XB -- Earl Needham http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs Quoting from the Coast Guard: ZUT Posted via Blackberry
