[Dstar] Re: Dstar Digest, Vol 17, Issue 11

[Christie Jahn]

Its been excellent over here since the d-star ( d-plus ) system has been 
fixed.. I am now D-Star excited again...
I have been talking to people since 5pm tonight til 9pm
Fantastic..
Thankyou to everyone involved.

Regards,

Christie Jahn vk6xcj
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>   1. D-STAR voice on an Analogue radio. (Ron)
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> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:59:04 +1100
> From: "Ron" <vk3ant at optusnet.com.au>
> Subject: [Dstar] D-STAR voice on an Analogue radio.
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> G'day everyone.
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> 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.
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> 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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