Subj : Re: Wires-X
To   : Vk3jed
From : dejavu
Date : Fri Jun 19 2020 12:33:19

On 19 Jun 2020, Vk3jed said the following...
 
 Vk> -=> On 06-17-20 08:41, dejavu wrote to Vk3jed <=-
 Vk> 
 Vk>  de> I haven't purchased a DMR radio...  I have P25 and D-STAR.  I also ha
 Vk>  de> a hotspot that I could leave connected to your local repeater.  I
 Vk>  de> haven't used it since I set it up tho, I have to be honest the digita
 Vk>  de> modes over the internet don't really excite me.   I'm an analog type 
 Vk>  de> guy :)
 Vk> 
 Vk> They have their uses.  The main downside for me is that proprietary
 Vk> vocoder, which makes integration much more expensive.  Instread of a
 Vk> simply software bridge like Asterisk or thelinkbox, you have to buy a
 Vk> hardware adapter and have your software talk to that for transcoding. 
 Vk> And that gets expensive very quickly.  It's also a pain if you use a
 Vk> VPS, because you have to send the audio to a site with the hardware and
 Vk> back again. :/
 Vk> 
 Vk> I'm not doing any of that (haven't had the money), but others have.
 Vk> 
 Vk>  de> I will pull out the D-STAR radio today and charge it since it's just
 Vk>  de> sitting in the box and I'll get out the hotspot and see if there are
 Vk>  de> any updates that need to be done.
 Vk> 
 Vk> What hotspot?

I wish I remembered, it was custom build and I believe the software was from
your neck of the woods.   The device is benched and in a box, however I can
see what box it's in and touch it, so it wouldn't take took much of an
endeavor to make it active again.  I have so many projects I need a handful
of people to manage it all :)  Sounds like you do as well.

 Vk> 
 Vk>  de> When I was playing around with the hotspot originally about two years
 Vk>  de> ago or so there were D-STAR and DMR bridge networks available on my
 Vk>  de> hotspot, perhaps we could discuss what the primary digital HT everyon
 Vk>  de> has and start there, then bridge in the other radios and get a talk
 Vk>  de> group going.
 Vk> 
 Vk> Well, I'm setup for DMR.  I can do D-STAR, but would have to manually
 Vk> configure the hotspot to do so.  Ideally, I'd like a second hotspot for
 Vk> D-STAR.
 Vk> 

Tell you what, before you do any additional work let me get my D-Star HT
charged and get my hotspot connected, updated to the latest code and linked
to your repeater and I'll drop your call sign a couple times to see if I hear
anything back.   Once I get there I'll let you know :)   What's the local
repeater you would use with D-Star?

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