Phil Kane wrote:
On Wed, 28 May 2008 09:33:52 EDT, Michael Coslo wrote:

The "leadership" of our ARES/RACES group are D-Star fanatics. They
claim, though, that the ICOM equipment does have an FM mode to pass FM
signals through. I have no idea how that works (dual detection
channels?).
I've looked to see if such a thing (fm voice) exists within D-Star.
Could these folks steer us to some documentation? Here are the RF
modules I've found:

The FM voice is not part of the D-Star specs. It is built into the
ICOM hardware. The IC-2820 dual-band dual-channel mobile comes
"D-Star ready" for $600 and the add-on D-Star module is another $200+.

Right. My thoughts on the whole thing are that with the Bizarre
"repeater that isn't a repeater" argument they couldn't run FM analog
because it would turn the "repeater that isn't a repeater into a
repeater that is a repeater."

Now repeat that ten times real fast! ;^)

- 73 de Mike N3LI -