[Dstar] Re: DSTAR DX?

[Mark Aitken]

Hi Guys,

thanks for your replies both here and to my email address about working 
dstar dx.

I will monitor 145.125 DV vertical polarization most evenings from 
around 1830pm local time with
my ID800 and GST-1 at 15m.  My locator is QF21PX.

I will also monitor www.vklogger.com .

Hope to get that rare long distance DV contact on 2m and even 70cm.

 From my experience in driving around victoria of late I still manage to 
decode the repeaters with
the IC92AD and mobile dualband antenna well out of the city.  Out past 
wallan to the north
out Warragul/Moe area to the east, naturally down geelong and of course 
out past Kyeton.

So with a base to base, and even later on, beam to beam, I can not see a 
reason why we shouldnt
be able to have many hundreds of km's out of a contact between dstar 
radios,  apart from population density
at the moment!!!!!

It would be very interesting to see what happens to a dstar signal with 
modes like Aircraft enhancement, Meteor
scatter or ducting. I know it doesnt like multi pathing that much but we 
can play cant we!

I am in th process of setting up 2m/70cm & 23cm horizontal beams for my 
ssb work and will make sure I can
easily switch the dstar box over to these beams.  Still a few weeks 
(read months hi hi) away but soon....be ready  :>)

Regards

Mark