Those who have gone through the last 3 iterations of MS versions of windows can now easily be told (and understand) that "Adjusting to Linux is just like adjusting to Vista after you were used to

I agree that's a great feature. I think Kenwood missed an opportunity with the D72 to do the same. How easy would it have been to allow coordinates to be stored with memory items and then show

* On 2012 22 May 13:49 -0500, qrv@... wrote: Except that people are familiar with MS Windows' bugs and warts and when shown a Linux desktop and hear, "Just like Windows", the assumption is that they

I went to Dayton and the one thing on my shopping list was an ID-31A (I have 3 other D-STAR radios). I won an ID-31A as a door prize at the D-STAR Pizza dinner Thursday night! Great little handheld.

I don't think there is a 'universal' APRS channel for 70cm, like 144.39 is for 2m. Here in the Northwest, we use 440.800 for 9k6 APRS. Not sure how official this list is, but it provides other

Byonics tried to get a line of 440mhz trackers up, but no one was interested. Maybe now. Respectfully Perry Chamberlain

No it is not, Craig

The icom ID-31A has built in gps, and its already forwarding Dprs packets under dstar, to the findu IS. But this radio looks like it will have so many more uses. Hope it doesnt take too long for

No 1200 baud? :-( True it's overkill for a UDR but it could be useful at times... Bill

That is a great idea, nice........... Im liking it even more . He said: "Here's the good news though. If you have a current igate on 2m, you can replace the computer with a UDR56K, attach a

Is anyone from the Statesboro-Savannah (GA-USA) area involved yet? Integrated APRS/D-Star systems sound like an excellent redundant-wireless communication network to backstop vulnerable wired,

I will tune my igate to 445.925 and see what I pick up over the next few days. Near as I can tell all local (CT/NY area) users are on 144.390 but maybe I'm missing out on a lot of traffic. I

tizen.org is a fascinating project, joined by some big players like Samsung, to foster development of Linux across a wide spectrum of applications and devices. A project like that reinforces the

Hi Sander, Maybe I can clarify this a little bit. If you look at the wiki information in the link you included, 144.39 nor 1200 baud is universally used for APRS or igates. You will find there are

Is it interoperable with the AMBE CHIP embedded radios? Respectfully Perry Chamberlain

The 440 aprs packet frequency used is 445.925. In some areas, its dead quiet, in some its packed. But there are 440 freqs to use aprs. It just means you have better propagation, no collisions and as

Not just as a development environment; The stability of Linux makes it ideal for consumer grade products as well, which is why so many consumer grade products (like phones and TVs and routers and

Right, if you have a local userbase that runs APRS on 70cm then this would be a great radio. It could even be an advantage that no one 'in the know' will be pinging your igate with 144.390

The main reason I'd buy one of these radios today is to use as a home digipeater and iGate for our 96UHF alternate APRS network. UHF and 9600 is plug and play with the Kenwood mobiles but doing 9k6

Really? VHF? I operate APRS and RMS Packet using UHF at 9600 baud. It works so much better than 1200 baud packet on VHF. The noise floor on UHF is usually lower. A typical ham dual-band antenna has