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| What would it be like to hear crystal clear communication via handheld or mobile city to city, country to country? |
| Would you like to send SMS, type with Dchat®, track position data, find your friends or check their progress on UI-View®? |
Maybe you are part of WICEN, needing to integrate voice and data modes real time....
Send voice, files and pictures real time at 128Kb/s, Enter D-STAR! |
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| Myth
#1 |
“D-STAR
only works on 1.2 GHz.” |
| Get the Fact! |
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| Low-speed DV D-STAR voice and data works just fine at 144 and 430 MHz. 1.2 GHz supports the bandwidth needs of high speed DD data. Choose the technology that satisfies your needs. |
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#2 |
“There’s
no difference between D-STAR and packet.” |
| Get the Fact! |
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Even D-STAR’s lowest speed is competitive with the highest-perfromance packet systems available today. D-STAR’s simultaneous digital voice and data at 4800 bps is beyond the capability of any packet technology. Hi-speed D-STAR systems are ten times faster than the highest packet speeds. |
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#3 |
“D-STAR
is no different from IRLP or Echolink®” |
| Get the Fact! |
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VOIP systems like IRLP and Echolink® are only capable of routing voice signals. They don’t support data exchange at any speed. Calls targeted to a specific user are not possible by any amateur technology except D-STAR.. |
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#4 |
“D-STAR
is just a digital party line!” |
| Get the Fact! |
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The ability of D-STAR repeaters to route data and digitized voice worldwide sets it apart from a single party line. Sophisticated D-STAR controllers and gateways implement modern telecommunications functions in an amateur package. |
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#5 |
“D-STAR
is a replacement for broadband home Internet” |
| Get the Fact! |
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Truly a fantasy! D-STAR can connect a user to the internet, true, but all of the amateur radio restrictions on commercial activity still remain in place. D-STAR will provide the tools for a lot of great amateur innovation, but it’s not intended to replace Internet providers |
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#6 |
“D-STAR won’t work with APRS®” |
| Get the Fact! |
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Except for the ID-1, All D-STAR radios can do DPRS when connected to a GPS receiver. The exciting thing is, with D-STAR being an open protocol, software experimenter, Pete Lovell AE5PL, has written a program that interfaces DPRS to APRS® and sends the converted APRS data to your APRS IS gateway. This means you can see all the new D-STAR stations on UI-View®. With the “D-STARTNC2” application, any D-STAR repeater with a gateway can send DPRS ?APRS data to the APRS Internet system. The D-STAR team will be implementing this interface in Australia.
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| Myth
#7 |
“I’ll
be locked into Icom equipment forever.” |
| Get the Fact! |
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While
Icom is the first manufacturer to support D-STAR, any manufacturer
or amateur can use the JARL standards to create equipment
– transceivers, repeaters, and gateways – compatible
with the D-STAR system. As the D-STAR system grows, look for
other manufacturers to join the fun.
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