gital@yahoogroups.com, Jay Maynard
wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 02:06:38PM -, n0uyx wrote:
> > OK so this being the case then why cant we send a MSG from one D-
Star
> > radio or user to the other? I was told here that can't be done.
But if we
> > can send HIGH s
ata via
the APRS
> protocols, and display it. That's a completely different concept
than
> D-STAR.
>
>
>
> So, I think you're confusing what D-STAR does (act like a serial
cable, a
> modem, whatever you want to call it) and the job that APPLICATION
SOFTWARE
&g
Let me run this by you guys once more. From what I am told D-Star is
currently being used for Simulated Emergency Test and are sending
DATA about patients at Hospitals. I get this info from a Guy who went
to the Jacksonville, MS Hamfest and this info was put out at a D-Star
conferense. OK so we
Great so it is more like a display MSG or Beacon text that is sent
with every transmission?
You know I really must say what in the name of HAYDEES was ICOM
thinking when they opened this can O worms? But to go DIGITAL and
leave out MSG capabilities is really really a waste of band width
wouldn't y
But that is APRS which has nothing to do with D-Star. Anybody can do
that without a radio. If you loose the Internet connection what
happens? You loose the MSG capabilities? Then how are you sending D-
Star MSG? Thru the Terminal program still? If so then great it can be
done what a freaking long w
Man you guys are killing me. Do we or do we not have MSG capapbilities.
Crap how many times do I have to ask this question? OMG! If you can add
a MSG in the text of a beacon or whatever you guys call then yes it can
be done. I don't need to know your term for it just yes or no will do.
If I tell so
Right it totaly makes sense now because they two aren't equal but see
that was my whole point of investigating this. Because I just did a
Presentaion on APRS and that was a question that came up. APRS versus
D-Star and all I knew at the time was that D-Star could send MSG from
one radio to the
