Talk:D-STAR

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  • Please don't refer to yourself ("the author") in articles. Please read other suggestions I wrote on your talk page. Wickethewok 06:48, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

This page does indeed read a bit like an Icom advertisement. It's important technology, to be sure, and Icom has every right to be proud, but I'd rather see the codecs involved, datarates, and differentiations between the standard FM/PM radios and D-Star radios... Ah, well. I don't feel much like doin' it. Jdos2 18:02, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I did find some information about the codec here http://www.dvsinc.com/products/a2020.htm along with samples on the page. They are forig.wav and f2400.wav D-Star uses 2.4 as the information stated here, http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/techchar/D-STAR.pdf 1.1.2 Let me know if you feel this would be acceptable information for D-Star. Thanks and I'll work on it some more this week and after Fathers day. We6jbo 08:45, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

The PDF covers it pretty well. Thanks for the pointer!

[edit] Cleanup

This article is in need of an opening section that describes what D-Star is at a high level and then subsections that go into more details.--Kharker 18:10, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

  • Agreed. I don't really what know D-Star is and can't really figure it out based on this article. Wickethewok 03:16, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Let us know if the page looks cleaned up or if there's anything that you feel is missing. Thanks and appreciate the help you've given us to make this a great wiki page We6jbo 00:55, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

  • I'm going to try and take on some cleanup work here. I've been reading about D-Star in CQ and QST for the last couple of years, so it should make for a nice little research project. --StuffOfInterest 20:48, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Looks good. I think your way of citing information is a lot better too. We6jbo
      • Thanks. Unfortunately, I had to remove a lot of material being that it was copy/pasted from outside sources. Hopefully some more original text or outside developed diagrams can be added later. Note that I found D-STAR on two other wikis, but from what I could make out they didn't have much more we could use. --StuffOfInterest 19:32, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copy & Paste plus odd image files

I've started doing some cleanup work on the article. Unfortunatley, I've found something disturbing. There appears to be a lot of copy & paste from Icom's and other websites. This is not allowed as it is a copyright violation. The sections with this text need to be redone or they will have to be removed. Of particular concern right now are the Overview, History, and Technical information sections. Specific features is currently nothing but a quote, but at least it is labeled as such. Still, all of these need to be redone.

Another area I'm cocerened about is the uploading of non image content such as PDF files. I'll need to do some research but I thought the image function was mainly intended for in articule illustrations and not reference material. Such material probably belongs on WikiSource or it should be kept as an off site external link. I'll try and find out more but if someone else can provide some insight here it would be helpful. Thanks. --StuffOfInterest 13:47, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I just took a bunch of the copy/paste text out with this edit. Better to have the article as a stub than to have plagerization in there which could cause trouble. Try reading the related articles and put the material in your own words. Even with that, still use reference links to show where you are getting the information. As time permits I'll try to get some of the technical details distilled out myself. --StuffOfInterest 18:43, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bias information

Clearly a lot of the information for the D-Star wiki is bias and needs to be edited content wise. 66.91.245.251 22:44, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Please expand on this. Anonym1ty 23:33, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Any words that might strike of POV need to be avoided. --PhantomS 07:36, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Um.. Ok then. Anonym1ty 16:13, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions as per WP:RADIO assessment request

From a quick glance, it looks like there needs to be a discussion of the history of the device. Also, you should tell more about the standard and the process that went into the creation of the standard. Also, how closely do the devices keep to the standard versus adding proprietary additions, etc. --PhantomS 07:36, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Some additions were made including some history. There are a few missing dates which I'm still researching. I also added a D-Star project section to demonstrate some of the additions to D-Star i.e., ARPS d*Chat. We6jbo 08:40, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images that have been taken by myself, and may be used on D-Star related projects, by anyone.

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