[Dstar] DV Dongle

[vk2bzwestlakes]

Thank you to both Tony and Michael for your replies.

-----Original Message-----
From: dstar-bounces at lists.wia.org.au [mailto:dstar-bounces at lists.wia.org.au]
On Behalf Of Tony Langdon
Sent: Monday, 10 March 2008 12:12 PM
To: Dstar Digital Radio Mail List; 'Dstar Digital Radio Mail List'
Subject: RE: [Dstar] DV Dongle

At 11:20 AM 3/10/2008, vk2bzwestlakes wrote:
>A week ago I placed a what I thought was silly reply to this enquiry hoping
>some one would pick up and explain to those, who are nowhere near a D-Star
>installation, WHAT A DV DONGLE IS AND DOES. I'm still waiting for the
>experts to post a sensible reply.

Basically, a DV Dongle is a piece of hardware that plugs into a USB 
port and encodes and decodes AMBE formatted audio.  The DV Dongle 
also comes with a package that allows it to connect to suitably 
configured D-STAR gateways, allowing a user to work D-STAR users from their
PC.

However, that is not all the DV Dongle can do.  With suitable 
software, it can be used to:

- Transmit/receive D-STAR using a 9600 bps capable radio (Rx only 
software exists)
- Transmit/receive AOR DV (software for this haven't been written yet)
- Add AMBE capabilities to other ham written software.

 From there, limited to one's imagination ;)

73 de VK3JED
http://vkradio.com

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