On Mar 17, 2010, at 8:12 PM, Woodrick, Ed wrote:
> Kenwood’s and Icom’s commercial digital product is based upon D-STAR.
>
Not picking on you Ed, but they're not even close to the same thing.
It's FDMA, capable of two different channel widths, and is using the AMBE+2
VOCODER, for starters.
On Mar 17, 2010, at 8:34 PM, Woodrick, Ed wrote:
> 1 In the interest of full disclosure. If you kerchunk and set the one-touch,
> you will be able to talk, but the RPT2 gateway will not be set. If you hit
> the one touch while someone else is talking, the RPT2 gateway will get set.
> If the RP
At 07:43 PM 3/17/2010, Tony Langdon wrote:
I think the way memories currently work is wrong. To me, you need to
be able to specify the frequency independently of the callsigns
That's pretty much what DR Mode lets you do in the ID-880 mobile (and I
assume the IC-80 HT). It's confusing to learn,
I thought it should be pointed out that the Kenwood Dstar equipment is
available in Japan, but only directly from Kenwood via the internet, the two
rebranded mobile models (20w and 50w) are not available from dealers. I
discovered this during a trip to Akihabara district last year. Many Yen went
un
"The Open Source "hamlib" library is available and covers tons of radios
that have remote *operations* capabilities also, something Icom doesn't
provide on any of the D-STAR rigs, even though it's a common standard on
their HF rigs, and has been for many years. "
The ID-1 has remote capabilities v
At 10:53 PM 3/18/2010, you wrote:
>The ID-1 has remote capabilities via USB, the buggy software is included
>with it. BTW, anyone know if they ever updated it? Can't seem to find it on
>Icom's site.
The IC91AD can also be remotely controlled, using the RS-91 software
and the appropriate serial c
On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:15 PM, Tony Langdon wrote:
> The IC91AD can also be remotely controlled, using the RS-91 software
> and the appropriate serial cable.
Kinda. You can't set callsigns without going into programming mode.
I refuse to call it true "remote control" if you can't set the calls
