Subj : D-Star
To : TOM WALKER
From : Richard Menedetter
Date : Sat Jan 16 2016 10:12 am
Hi TOM!
11 Jan 2016 07:10, from TOM WALKER -> RICHARD MENEDETTER:
RM>> That is the good thing with HAM radio.
RM>> You can have different definitions.
RM>> Mine looks different to yours ;)
TW> There is NO different look for Ham Radio.
But obviously there are.
You have one, and I have one, they are not the same, hence they are different.
QED.
TW> IT is, and has been since it's inception, communications over Radio
TW> waves for the entire contact.
TW> A Microphone connected to a Computer or an Internet Adapter hardly
TW> seems to qualify
I am not talking about a microphone connected to a computer or an Internet
Adapter!
I am for example talking about D-Star/DMR/Fusion.
There you have 3 possibilitites:
1) talk on simplex HT <-> HT over radio waves (talk around on DMR)
2) HT <-> repeater <-> HT over radio waves
3) HT <-> repeater 1 <-> IP <-> repeater 2 <-> HT all over radio except the IP
link between the 2 repeaters. Those two repeaters can be seperated by thousands
of kilometers or whatever non-SI units you like.
From MY point of view having the possibility of using option 3 does NOT
disqualify those technologies as being HAM!
Again feel free to have a different oppinion, but stop telling me that there is
no different viewpoint, because there is!!
