Surf Web on DStar Ham Radio

Chris Matthieu, N7ICE, demonstrates how to surf the web on an Icom ID-1 D-Star ham radio!

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Science & Technology

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• ham radio
• amateur radio
• ham
• dstar
• d-star
• icom
• hamradio

[presw]

I wonder about the legality of this idea. You are not supposed to use ham radio for any commercial traffic. It's hard to avoid anything commerical in the Internet. Technically it seems Chris did not hit any commercial sites but sites have ads in them etc...W2PW (WD2NY D-star & WR2UHF analog IRLP)

[BlueLightRhyno]

Great Vid! Thanks.......

[MichaelJE2]

A slightly more efficient way to get power to the wifi router would be to just wire it directly to your car's battery, that way you can skip the DC to AC and then straight back AC to DC conversion. I'm 99% sure that linksys router takes 12V. ;) (Just don't hook it up backwards!)

[fyrfyter33]

@GetTFC perhaps you should read up and note the line of sight issues and shared bandwidth problems. 1.2GHz DD D-Star is an infancy technology. It speaks volumes when an East Coast state is setting up a statewide D-Star network, and says the data transmission quality or even worthiness of 1.2GHz is dismal at best, and they opt to omit it. Furthermore, if someone wants to kill of the DD side of things, it is not going to work at all. Maybe you should read the D-Star spec again?

[GetTFC]

@fyrfyter33 Yes this is how D-STAR can be used and YES your not even close :) Don't use it, do you? Connecting any wifi AP gives it a "wifi component". The connectivity is there, if you don't understand it don't comment on it ;)

[chang343343]

do you need the icom id-1 specifically to browse the web? is this possible through their other dstar compatible mobile TRs?

[TheMoneyIsMyMine]

awesome.

[TheMoneyIsMyMine]

@GreatPurification 128 kilobits per second is like a slow dsl/old ISDN line. The only "dial up" that ever touched that was shotgun modem configuration with an ISP running radius capable of being compatible with that modem configuration (which wasn't exactly common). It's packet radio done over HAM though. That's quite a bit better than having no Internet at all in an area that has no 3g/3gs/LTE coverage... That's still awesome even almost 3 years later.

[GreatPurification]

D-Star NEEDS to have DD capabilities in the VHF bands!!! It's nothing new you can even get WiFi equipment in 900Mhz that will penetrate better than 1.2Ghz, and give you over 3,000kbps compared to the 128kbps. Does D-Star have any DD plans in VHF?? And, its 2011, 128kbps is like dialup. VHF DD + 500kbps is what we really need. Espeically for the price of this gear. Oh, and where's the handhelds that support DD? None yet....

[ilanmordechai]

do you have to pay for a repeater service / other subscription?