[d-star] Radio question, any systems, some thoughts?

[Erik Westgard]

Yes for home stations in rural areas packet and Winlink and Pactor seem
best.  The big need I am driving is for web application support in dense
urban areas

I learned at the big Federal meeting a few weeks back there is a Rand study-
the Internet would last 3 days in a pandemic



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[mailto:d-star-bounces at lists.twinslan.org] On Behalf Of tom
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:58 AM
To: List for people interested in the D Star repeaters
Subject: Re: [d-star] Radio question, any systems, some thoughts?

hi Eric,
   am in the outback about 100 miles north of the cities.  the distance from

a tower to the next point using 2ghz is line of sight and maybe 10 miles. 
if you up the power to 10 or more watts then maybe 20 miles.  there are a 
lot of pine trees in the way so that distance goes down to maybe 1 mile with

10 watts.  there aint no way i would spend $1k for a 1 mile link with no one

else to talk to.   a d-star repeater is $3k for a good start and looks like 
$6k including a 5ghz link each.  maybe for the cities or a rich uncle but 
probably not out here.
   the vhf and uhf rigs are a lot less money and work longer ranges and have

people on the other end mostly.   might try hf as there are a lot of talkers

down there.

tom
w0kgw at citlink.net 

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