D star

Checkout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-STAR

Leon
(kc0iv)

 

Dstar DOES work but it cost way too much money ........

This is why at the jail we stayed with analog ....

You buy a good FM radio and a good 150 watt amp put up a good antenna and your set .......

 

Your jail/county was looking into DSTAR??? I thought all public safety was legally obligated to use APCO-25???

 

D-Star range is very limited about 25 miles or less. With a range of about 25 mile into a repeater and about 275 repeaters nationwide that's not alot of coverage. Even if you place 6 repeaters per State. And if you notice that only Icom uses it. Yaesu and Kenwood are going with APCO P-25 radios. I would wait before buying any D-Star radio. You may be glad that you did.

http://www.yaesu.com/indexVS.cfm?cm...3B6AB769C0EC0F6B68&DivisionID=65&isArchived=0

 

ICOM makes a digital ( P25 ) radio which is what I was talking about ....
Strangly it will do much of what the HAM dstar does but at over $800 per radio and we arte paying $140 for our new analog ones it was not worth the price ...

I don't know if P-25 is a REQUIREMENT but your right it IS the standard ...


UPDATE ..... according to our #1 tech ...
Dstar would be LEGAL for use here if the radio is part 90 ....

 

http://www.icomamerica.com/en/products/landmobile/p25/f1721_series/default.aspx
P-25 is a format and can be used by many radios ICOM makes radios OTHER than d-star ... we had some here to play with ....

 

We have 1500 F43's and about 100 Mobile/bases These replaced 1500 F4's that 90% were still working after 11 years ....

ICOM is a dependable radio sounds good and easy to Martainn .....

What do you base your comments on facts only please ...