At 08:14 AM 7/23/2010, you wrote:
>Donald, > >Maybe you don't need a repeater right away. Try simplex with your >fellow Dstar hams. I've been working to promote simplex activity by >having a simplex 'event' the second sunday of each month. We plan to >kick this off on Aug 8,2010. D-StAR got off to a roaring start here in Melbourne on simplex. The simplex frequency was full of D-STAR traffic, until the first repeater came to town. :) I bought into D-STAR a month or two before the repeater went up and had a ball on simplex. 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com