Re: D-Star   
     By: Richard Menedetter to Holger Granholm on Fri Jan 08 2016 10:01:18   
      
    DW>>>> Me, I'm busy playing with my D-STAR rigs.  :)   
      
    HG>> That's not ham radio, real ham (amateur) radio works from your   
    HG>> antenna to the other hams antenna, directly with radio waves as   
    HG>> medium. Not by networks of some sort or another!   
      
    RM> That is the good thing with HAM radio.   
    RM> You can have different definitions.   
      
   I agree with Holger.  Ham radio is trying to contact another station through   
   the ether, not via phone lines.  We used to call that a phone patch. :)   
      
      
    RM> Mine looks different to yours ;)   
      
   Obviously.  Do you have an antenna and rig, and a call?   
      
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