Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

I like to see the 3 band ,too. ut one question to the group: HT 1,2 GHZ 1 Watt or more on 7 -9 db antenna ,is the ERP not already a little Danger for your Eyes? My 1,2 GHZ repeater has a 14.9 DB Commet Antenna,she scares me already,I havve a 90 Watt Amp on 1,2 GHZ for the DD.But not installed yet.

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

Hallo Peter, Some of the folks in Atlanta, GA are using a 23cm preamp from SSB Engineering http://www.ssbusa.com/ordering.html . There are several different manufactures in the links section on this yahoo group. I have not checked, but the gain figure sounds like isotropic gain and is artificial

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

A few comments about 23 cm. I used to operate an analog 23 cm repeater. It was located at the same (urban) site as a 440 repeater. They got almost identical coverage. Obstructions are problem for 23 cm. A brick wall can literally be a brick wall for a 23 cm signal. But, as several people pointe

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

Thanks for the comments, Nate. I'm just stirring the pot here for fun. I see 1.2DV as nothing new, as I have many radios that reach repeaters now... I see 1.2DD as the real performance upgrade: My laptop goes plug and play into my ham radio (ID-1), and now my laptop can reach a repeater, and tal

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

John, I'm confused; by searching as you suggest, does that tell me if the activity was DV or DD? How do you distinguish? Thanks! 73 de NAØG Gene --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, John Hays wrote: > > http://dstarusers.org/ == check the Reporting Node for "A" --- you'll > see some act

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

On Jan 31, 2009, at 4:36 AM, Peter Scherp wrote: > I like to see the 3 band ,too. > ut one question to the group: HT 1,2 GHZ 1 Watt or more on 7 -9 db > antenna > ,is the ERP not already a little Danger for your Eyes? > My 1,2 GHZ repeater has a 14.9 DB Commet Antenna,she scares me > already,

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

On Jan 31, 2009, at 6:47 AM, genedathe wrote: > Thanks for the comments, Nate. > > I'm just stirring the pot here for fun. > Totally understandable. I've NEVER done that. ;-) > I see 1.2DV as nothing new, as I have many radios that reach repeaters > now... > Also understand. The issue here m

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

Gene, I personally don't know if it is reporting DD vs DV - but it does give an indication that 23cm is being used. genedathe wrote: > > John, I'm confused; by searching as you suggest, does that tell me if > the activity was DV or DD? How do you distinguish? Thanks! > > 73 de NAØG Gene > > - >

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

On the W1KK system we recently upgraded the 23cm duplexer to be a triplexer. And we've got a new antenna and a couple of hundred feet of 1 5/8 that will be going up as soon as the WX permits. With decent HAAT 23cm plays quite well ... not much different than 33cm and we have a lot of new 33cm sy

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

--- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, Nate Duehr wrote: > Most of us in data networking see a 128Kb/s half-duplex network as > quite a long ways from "wow" these days. Tethering to my cell phone > is faster on both CDMA and GSM networks now, and my house has a burst > speed of 16Mb/s down,

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Repeaters planned for Salem Oregon area?

I am curious if there are any D-Star repeaters planned for the Salem Oregon area. Specifically ones that can be accessed by a handheld. I have tried accessing one in Beaverton and there is one listed west of me but I am unable to access them. I am currently only working simplex with D-star. Kind o

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile  D-STAR transceivers , ID-80 and ID-880

If anyone has successfully put a PA or a preamp on a DD box or an ID-1 running DD, please post to this list - Buddy WB4OMG On Jan 31, 2009, at 4:36 AM, Peter Scherp wrote: > have a 90 Watt Amp on 1,2 GHZ for the DD.But not installed yet. ** A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. Se

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR Hotspot issue

I have been using the DSTAR hotspot software to monitor a couple of our repeaters with logging. I DO NOT has a gmsk adapter. I have noticed that after a while the log starts getting entries saying I have transmitted with the adapter that I DO NOT have. Why? Fran, W1FJM

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] DSTAR Hotspot issue

The actual entry is "1/31/2009 1:48:00 PM - Transmitting ID via Node Adapter" and it keeps repeating every second. Fran _ From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dstar_digi...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of franmiele Sent: Saturday, Janua

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile� D-STAR transceivers , ID-80 and ID-880

Buddy Me thinks that switching speed would be an issue. I don't think mechanical relays are fast enough. The only other way would open up the Pseudo ID-1 inside the repeater and put the Preamp in the receive line but this might make it subject to intermod problems. Not sure about any of the

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Interesting Technology (a little off topic)

A different way to send long URLs - popular in Japan for some time and coming to the rest of the world is something called QR barcodes. You can encode a fair amount of information, then using an app on your cellphone (iPhone, Android, etc.) you can extract the information and access it through

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Interesting Technology (a little off topic)

Well, what comes immediately to mind is using them with SSTV. Just encode your club (or personal) website and include it in the picture transmission. The only problem is that this is an "encoded" message, which is illegal in the FCC guidelines since not everyone can easily translate it. If

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced  new hand-held and  mobile  D-STAR transc eivers , ID-80 and ID-880

Bob, you are right, switching time, in DD Mode is a huge problem. One knowledgable person told me a vacuum relay, might be a possibility. I doubt it. Switching a preamp in and out with PIN diodes, I would think, is feasible. Switching a Power Amp, with PIN diodes I am told would be very expensiv

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Interesting Technology (a little off topic)

I'm pretty darn sure this would not be considered "encryption to obscure the meaning" -- it is a widely known code and both coding and decoding software is pretty available. At least 4 apps for the iPhone, all free - Neoreader is probably the easiest, Android has an application, as well as many

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Interesting Technology (a little off topic)

I've been playing with QRcodes a bit recently on my blog and with my phone. There are readers for many phones (including my Blackberry 8130). I've mostly been thinking about educational uses of these codes, but it would be neat to see how they might be useful in the ham world. SSTV for sure, bu

RE: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

We are getting some use down here in Florida, you need to go over to the dstaar-gateway group and read up on the new testing we are doing with the DD boxes and the ID-1. Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA4TH FL / WQFK-894 Fla. D-Star Tech Support Group www.florida-dstar.info Polk ARES A.E.C. www

RE: {Disarmed} Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880

FIRST OF ALL, DO NOT INSTALL AN AMP ON THE DD BOX!! Your going to save some headaches by not doing that... there are no amps out there that can switch fast enough for the DD boxes ask the Michigan group, been there done that, the own the shirts! For Voice, go ahead, we added a preamp to the