Youngsters trained in D-STAR

Youngsters in South Yorkshire are being trained in the D-STAR digital communications system.

The RSGB Emerging Technology Co-ordination Committee (ETCC) website highlights a Barnsley Chronicle newspaper article about how Dearne youngsters are being trained as skilled operators of the D-Star Repeater System.

The article says:

"This is groundbreaking technology and our youngsters are being up-skilled by learning how to use it,” said Walt Bridgen, who led the Dearne e-learning net until recently.

“Communication links need to be set up quickly in an emergency and the only reliable ones are amateur radios."

“Everything you can do on the Internet, you can do on the radio, but in a time of national disaster, mobile phones will be useless as they are linked to a mast and then go underground through cables.”

Barnsley Chronicle D-STAR article
http://www.barnsley-chronicle.co.uk/news/2,0000,1571.html

Dearne Valley Venture
http://www.dearnevalleyventure.org.uk/

South Yorkshire Repeater Group
http://www.southyorkshirerepeatergroup.co.uk/

RSGB Emerging Technology Co-ordination Committee (ETCC)
http://www.ukrepeater.net/

Repeater Coverage Maps
http://www.ukrepeater.net/maps.html

Repeater Vetting
http://www.ukrepeater.net/vetting.html