KE7FTE, N7QQU and W9ERT show us the “drag and drop” flexibility of the Icom D-STAR System. Offering reliable exchange of large image files, email, word-processing and other files that emergency responders and served agencies find invaluable.
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great job guys,could you tell me where I can get the bumper sticker that you have that says”radio communications” our club would love to get some of these for our radio van and vehicles.please let me know
thanks again
GREAT VIDEO
is a shame it is proprietary
great vid
so you guys are transmitting data over the air? i gotta say, ham radio never ceases to amaze me.
Stay Safe guys!!
Man, I feel old skool with my V8000.
Great video guys,D-STAR will be set up here in St.John’s Newfoundland in the near future and from all the demos and videos I have seen it will give hams such as myself who are involved with ARES A lot of flexibility.73,good luck, Don,VO1XH ARES A.E.C
thanx, 73′s
good thing
I have a website for California ARES members and I am in the process of setting up a system where packet radio communications are recorded real time to the website. I think that incorporating the web server and website with a wireless system like this would be extremely beneficial in the event of an emergency. What does something like this cost? What components are involved aside from radio? What else is it capable of doing? Does the PC registered it as an internet connection?
One big difference HAMS can use greater power with a upside of distance and robustness. Hams can use up to 1500 watts of power. Where your local wireless network is measured in millawatts to watts. With high gain antennas and lots of power ranges can exceed 50-80 miles. And that’s peer to peer! Try that with your wireless LAN! Idea is this can provide emergency backbone for a LAN that is down in an emergency. Not super fast, just robust and proven!
What’s the range on this thing? It looks quite similar to a wireless peer to peer lan!
Ask ham that are users. Can vary based on topography, etc.
That is correct! If you wish to keep things secure you must use a commercial carrier. The fact that it uses a rather hard to obtain codec and is digital provides a high degree of security inherit in the system. However, you must assume that on ham radio that nothing is truly “secure”. That’s just the way it is. My suggestion is don’t go anywhere using such a system that might compromise your security – bank accounts, etc. This is HAM RADIO – not a free service for the general public!
The only thing I see as a problem is what about security? You know passwords and things of that nature. If this is over the radio then anyone can pick up the data.
Great technology. Good to see a future in a dying hobby!
73, Carl
It is very greatest!
this is amazing that on how much a radio system can do. without a special service from like a phone company.
what the amateur radio community needs on youtube is an instructional video on how to program dstar repeater memory channels into an id 700 and or an ic 220h without the use of a computer!!! in an emergency you may not have a pc and in Alabama I hear alot of hams complain about programming these trancievers thanks DE NR4DW
How fast is the “on-air” connection speed ?
we need a video on howto program an ID 800 without a computer… Good Luck
good job !! My state Alabama has an Awsome dstar setup!!
please post more demonstrations, and how to build a emergency radio kit which includes radio, battery, antenna set up, you know the kit.
Looks like a great communication medium, John VK2ATU Sydney Australia
This is fantastic!!!!
73
Chris, VE3RKP