At 07:47 AM 8/12/2010, you wrote:
> hand the breaking station knows what repeater or ham call he is > trying to reach with call sign routing. (and if by a pc on the > internet looking at <http://dstarusers.org>dstarusers.org know who > is occupying what repeater). Assuming they have Internet access. We can't assume this. They might be a mobile station, so we have to assume that many of the contacts are "blind" when using callsign routing. >I have never played with IRLP or Echolink but in 30 years of PMR / >Land Mobile service I have seen some of the very best and also some >of the very worst amateur linked systems in terms of audio levels, >quality, noise and distortion. Dstar seems to be consistent in that >stations are all Well, you get that mix with IRLP and Echolink as well, from audio almost as good as a hardwired link, to lousy. :) >pretty much equal in loudness and there is no white noise / crackle, >etc. Instead we have loss of sync beyond forward error correction's >ability to fill in the blanks. R2D2, so to speak. However, this is beside the point. The thread was about the relative "intrusiveness" of callsign routing vs linking. >For me, a hybrid of linking and callsign routing works best. One >size doesn't fit all. > >I am sure each system has it's pluses and minuses - as said >"different horses for different courses." Yep, agree 100% on this one, and I'm happy to use both (when I can - out here, direct RF access is quite limited, so restricted to DPlus most of the time these days by the available technology). 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com
