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N4OZI's Work Photos "Digital Radio on Steroids"

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I hope it's ok to share this as it is posted on a publicly accessible web site:

There's a very nice gentleman I hear occasionally on the D-STAR reflectors (N4OZI) and after looking at his QRZ page, wanted to share a link he provided on his homepage from his past profession as a retried engineer and project manager of P25 RF communications networks installations for Public Safety.

Some of you are probably involved with such undertakings but I have never seen such equipment and efforts like this before. Pretty impressive!


 

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He's local to me, and heard him on our club repeater last night. I don't know if he consulted on my current system (we went live in 2015) but the RFSS he showed off is very similar to one of ours.

Real radio is indeed on steroids. The TTAs we use can hear a gnat fart 40 miles away on the GTRs. Watching the comparators vote is amazing. Seamlessly assembling the stream without any drops in audio. Miles above the analog SpectraTac and AstroTacs we once used on the old Smartnet system that served us since 1989.
 
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