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D-Star comes to Omaha
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Hash: SHA1 I'm pleased to discover that a D-Star repeater has been set up on 2 meters here in Omaha, Nebraska: KD0CGR/R, 145.175(-). This effort is being led and coordinated by the Omaha Digital Communications Group, which holds the repeaters's club callsign: http://www.omahadigital.org/d-star-repeater/ http://www.omahadigital.org/ http://www.qrz.com/callsign/KD0CGR This is apparently a coordinated assignment on a vacant frequency pair, which is a fortunate circumstance from living here in the rural midwestern U.S. Gatewaying to Lincoln, 55 miles to the west, to the W0MAO repeater/gateway, is being supported on a "semi-permanent" basis: http://www.146760.net/news.php?readmore=20 Looks like minimum equipment buy-in (for a handheld) would be about $400-$450 for an Icom IC-91AD. That's a bit stiff, but is probably in-line with what many on this newgroup paid for their first dual-band HT (and that was in more expensive dollars at the time). The Omaha Digital Communications Group plans to expand to 1.2 GHz shortly. Omaha analog repeater activity for many years now has been mostly in support of severe weather nets and volunteer weather spotters under the SKYWARN program. Time will tell how well this new technology can be integrated into such nets, and other public service communications. - -- 73, Paul W. Schleck, K3FU http://www.novia.net/~pschleck/ Finger for PGP Public Key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (SunOS) iD8DBQFI3m5k6Pj0az779o4RAsGoAJ9vNySYysdZkEj7VU2yHB hC+eeZGACggPsC yB8oMGDSZpa6qRN0iIVyelk= =QQPa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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