Batboard

does anyone know if theres any ham p25 repeaters in atlanta or atleast along I75 thru georgia?


wazz

here's all 50 states & then some.
theres got to be a contact/website in there.. good luck happy new year! drive safe!

http://www.arrl.org/nfcc/coordinators.htm

I've heard talk from some of the hams who work for Atlanta Communications (a local MSS) that they are wanting to put up a VHF and UHF Quantar, but nothing has happened yet. No P25 in the area, but a boat load of D-Star repeaters are popping up. The Atlanta Radio Club W4DOC has a D-Star system on all bands (2/44/1.2) on the Bank of America building downtown. But still no P25...

MTS2000DES

what is your opinion of the D-STAR operation and coverage in atlanta? tried it?
somewhere i read it is similar to direct connect or group connect. thru the net all over the world when using linked repeaters...

wazz

D-star is just a digital format, nothing magical. Yes you can link a repeater into other repeaters through the internet, but some certainly choose to not do that.

wazzzzzzzzup wrote:MTS2000DES

what is your opinion of the D-STAR operation and coverage in atlanta? tried it?
somewhere i read it is similar to direct connect or group connect. thru the net all over the world when using linked repeaters...

wazz

I've played with a friends' 91AD (Icom dual band digital portable). I used the first ARC D-Star machine, coverage wise their old D-Star repeater isn't very portable friendly. Have to be pretty much LOS with downtown to put a signal INTO it, but could hear it very well out here in Cobb county. As far as audio, D-Star uses AMBE and blows away P25 for quality, night and day difference. Really. Our county pissed away 60 million for an Astro 25 SZ system, the XTS5000 with DSP/HOST 10.xx can't hold a candle.

The biggest gripe I have with D-Star is Icom's proprietary gateway. The gateway operates very much like a Smartzone Omnilink Zone controller. Except therein lies the problem, Icom's implementation of D-Star has every gateway talking constantly, puts a huge load on bandwidth. Some of the D-Star pros are working on an open source gateway, one of them, Robin Cutshaw AA4RC, has also designed and built a USB dongle that encodes D-Star packets, it's built around an AMBE 2020 chip, and will allow you to get on D-Star from your PC.

http://www.moetronix.com/dvdongle/

D-Star will be cool when someone else other than Icom starts building radios and the standard becomes tweaked. It is open source, and work on making that happen is under way.

Thought I would bring this thread back from the archives....

Anyone know of any P25 machines in Atlanta? Erik any insight into P25 Atlanta machines?

ILuvXMRadio wrote:Thought I would bring this thread back from the archives....

Anyone know of any P25 machines in Atlanta? Erik any insight into P25 Atlanta machines?

There is ONE VHF P25 dual mode repeater, WB4NWS, on 145.43 NAC $293- it's on Mt. Oglethorpe and has mobile coverage throughout much of North GA, reaches into the norther suburbs like Cobb, North Fulton and Gwinnett quite well with a portable. Not too many P25 users on it, the majority of the traffic is analog (PL 107.2).

There is much more NXDN and MotoTRBO activity on the ham bands than P25, we have 4 NXDN repeaters downtown and two in the outer burbs, and a handful of DMR/MotoTRBO repeaters as well.

I myself can be found on the W7QO Hytera linked DMR repeater on 443.025 time slot 2 which is located on 191 Peachtree and has coverage as far south as Forsyth and north to Gwinnett/Hall county.