[Dstar] D-STAR voice on an Analogue radio.

[Ron]

G'day everyone.

Don't know if this has been reported before, haven't been keeping up with all the mail of late so I may have missed things at times.

I run an Echolink ( link ) node here at home consisting of an Asus Eee PC 900, Alinco FM Txcr on 70 Cms and the SignaLink with the integrated USB sound card, all this is run through a 3G wireless modem.

On D-STAR I have the IC-92AD and I quite often have the "A" band listening on my 70 Cm simplex frequency for Echolink, and the "B" band on D-STAR voice.  I also have the DV Dongle running ( at times ) through the Asus and 3G wireless connection ( because I can ) and this works real fine but I do have to turn off Echolink because of Port configuration.

Last week I turned off the Echolink software, but not the hardware and, not thinking, I fired up the DV Dongle and walked away from my shack, taking with me the 92 AD.

A little while later someone called up on D-STAR and I took a look at the screen of the 92, to see who it was,and saw the audio was coming out on my Echolink analogue simplex frequency, very quickly followed by someone else calling on VK3RWN "B", which is where I listen on D-STAR.

Now, I had two entirely different digital conversations on my IC 92 AD ( at the same time ) but one was coming out on the "A" band, and clearly audible.

I went back to my shack and saw what was happening. The dongle was listening to GB7DG, through the SignaLink and out to the Alinco and being splattered out in to the atmosphere for everyone to hear, on analogue, while the 92  was listening to VK3RWN-B on the "B" band.

I am, as would be suspected, not able to talk back through the 92 AD on the "A" band back to the Alinco and through the Asus for transmission back through the D-STAR network, but it is fun, and a way possible for people not yet on D-STAR, to listen and make an evaluation as to whether or not to take the plunge.

73
de Ron
VK3ANT


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