Good luck with dstar , we don't have any around here (dstar repeaters ) but I jumped in with both feet , I have a shark rf openspot coming on the next shipment, and I have an Icom 92AD and Kenwood 74a, the Kenwood is pretty much a IC ID 51A smashed together with the 72a , so it does dstar as well as APRS,nice trip band rig with digital .you'll want to keep up with 6 meters, they don't call it the magic band for nothing, when it does open you can do some crazy stuff with it , but both 6 & 10 are on the decline cycle due to solar activity, so you'll have some fun intermittently until the sun comes back and then it can get wild , look in your area for beacons and repeaters on 10 in both AM and FM.
Also come April there will be alot of activity on AM from a big contest the first wèek.
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