I'm going to assume that by engaging in all of this mental masturbation and ignoring the original poster's question, you're all trying to make sure he loses all interest in D-Star, correct?
The fellow asked a simple question, let's try for once to give him a simple answer. It's very unfortunate that these threads always seem to degenerate into some kind of p*ssing contest between the same two or three fellows. 73, Scott, N9AA