On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 12:20:57 PM UTC-4, Fred McKenzie wrote:
In article ,
Tom W3TDH wrote:

The other radio will be a UHF D-STAR hotspot.

Tom-

What kind of range are you trying to achieve with the hotspot? The
little antenna that came with a UHF DVAP covers my property fairly well,
just sitting on a table.

I connected it to a Larsen dual-band mag-mounted antenna stuck on top of
a filing cabinet, and get about a half mile range when mobile. The DVAP
puts out about a tenth of a Watt. I suspect it can hear the 50 Watt
mobile a lot further away.

If you want range, consider taking the DVAP with you and connecting to
the internet through a cellular modem or telephone. I'm considering
getting a D-HAP, which holds everything but the radio and the cellular
connection. http://www.portableuniversalpower.com/dhap/

73,
Fred
K4DII

Fred

I must confess that I am a little up in the air on the D-STAR hot spot issues. The hot spot is part of a club project that I would be hosting at my home. The club is using Motorola M120 radios at the low end of their power output which is around Twenty Five Watts I believe. The effort is intended to cover as much of our service area as is practical with Seventy Centimeter D-STAR coverage. The strange thing is that I am not a D-STAR user. I use the clubs centrally located analog repeater for my UHF coverage needs. I'm only hosting the local node in order to support the club effort.

Tom Horne W3TDH