PS. There was also some news announced about the D-Star ICC. Here are some pictures from the presentations and of some of the homebrew D-Star hardware:
http://www.g7lwt.com/FDH-2010/ <http://www.g7lwt.com/FDH-2010/>...there is also a pic of DB0COM but it doesn't seem to have a 1.2 GHz DD deck in the stack. On 28 June 2010 22:54, Storer, Darren <darren.sto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Andy, > > did you not spot the full G2 connected repeater stack at the side of the > Icom booth? (DB0COM) It's been operational for the last few years at FDH. > There were a lot of IC-92 radios and many GPS mics too. > > Upstairs there were some very well attended D-Star presentations (in > German) but the X-Reflector guys were conspicuous by their absence, despite > being invited by the organisers. Here are some project notes: > > http://db0fhn.efi.fh-nuernberg.de/doku.php?id=projects:dstar:ircddb > > <http://db0fhn.efi.fh-nuernberg.de/doku.php?id=projects:dstar:ircddb>There > were also some very recent technical slides (protocol and codec specific) > that do not seem to have been published yet but hopefully they will follow > in time. > > On the Friday night there was a D-Star meal/gathering at a local hotel, > with attendees from Austria, Germany, Finland, France and the UK. D-Star > admins from Greece and a number of other European countries were in the > booths in the A1 hall but you had to know where to find them - HI HI. > > 73 de Darren > G7LWT > > > On 28 June 2010 18:33, mm0fmf <mm0...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> Mark Thompson wrote: >> > >> > >> > Did anyone attend the Friedrichshafen hamfest in Germany this weekend? >> > >> Yes, back from the airport 2hrs ago. Only another 200+ emails to filter >> :-( >> >> >> > Friedrichshafen is Europe's largest hamfest and is the Dayton of Europe. >> > I've attended a couple times in the past, but couldn't make it this >> year. >> > >> It was a little smaller than before partly due to changes in the flea >> market (only used equipment allowed, no new items) >> >> >> > >> > Last year, 2009, I do know there where D-STAR presentations at >> > Friedrichshafen. >> > >> > >> > If anyone attended Friedrichshafen please let us know if you heard any >> > D-STAR activity and >> > saw or were aware of any D-STAR presentations this year? >> > >> >> The xReflector people had a repeater running, the details of that are >> below. >> >> "Auf unserem Stand auf der Ham Radio in Friedrichshafen wird unser >> xREPEATER mit drei Modulen QRV sein ... >> Hier die Frequenzen... >> >> DB0HAM B 438,450 MHz mit 7,6MHz Ablage >> DB0HAM D 438,4625 MHz mit 7,6MHz Ablage >> DB0HAM C 145,775MHz mit 0,6MHz Ablage >> DB0HAM G Gateway am weltweiten xTrust System" >> >> Also Jan DO1FJN had a some old C-Netz analog phones converted to D-Star >> on the same stand. (For non-Northern European hams see this for what >> C-Netz was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Netz). >> >> I didn't go looking for any D-Star presentations so I don't know if >> there were any. But there didn't seem to be much about D-Star apart from >> the main Icom stand. What was surprising was how many people had an Icom >> E92 handy with them. I would say that it was possibly the most popular >> handy I saw all weekend. >> >> Andy >> MM0FMF >> >> >>
