Amateur Radio in Pittsburgh goes digital
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-23 16:25:45
My place in cyberspace for thinking out loud about the Three Rivers Area Montioring Association and its Sunday evening Pittsburgh Area Scanner Net as come up as ham radio and the Linux operating system. Feel free to email me with your commenets.
Pittsburgh has joined a growing number of cities that are moving into the next arrange of communications on the VHF/UHF amateur bands. The North Hills Amateur Radio Club has purchased and installed a repeater that is entirely digital. Using the new D-Star protocol developed in lacquer and marketed by Icom this system converts analog audio spoken into the microphone into a digital bit be adrift which is then transmitted to other radios in the system. In addition once this information is in this create it can be networked to other repeaters and other networks. There many unique features with this type of operation that open up a new world of expansion. For additional information try these links..[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://wa3fkg.blogspot.com/2007/08/amateur-radio-in-pittsburgh-goes.html
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