[Dstar] New D-Star projects & Experimentation.

[Richard]

Hi All,

There are a lot of new developments happening with D-Star, especially in 
the UK where home brew D-Star equipment is taking off big time.
For example in the UK amateurs are working on the following D-Star projects.

Full D-Star repeater system.
D-Star hand mic insert.
D-Star HotSpot
D-Star Pic decoder / encoder
And more.

In Australia there is project underway to build a homebrew D-Star 
regenerator.

These projects are in various stages of development

Mark G7LTT has even got D-Star working on 6 mtrs and 10 mtrs. See below.

I'm sure that there are a few more VK D-Star projects in the pipe line 
for Amateurs to experiment with.

Cheers
Richard
VK3JFK

Hello all,

In the interests of "just because I can" I today was able to have a 10M
and 6M D-STAR QSO with myself.

Equipment this end was 2 Yaesu FT-8900 quad band FM rigs (10/6/2/440)
and 2 of Satoshi's DV adapters.

The "conversations" were in simplex mode over a distance of some 50 feet
from my shack to my car parked outside my house. Whilst this is by no
means a true test I should like to claim bragging rights to the first
10M and 6M D-STAR contacts if they are not already spoken for.

Have fun all and start building those 6M D-STAR repeaters!!!

Mark