SERA announces Digital Voice Repeater bandplans

The US South Eastern Repeater Association, Inc (SERA) has announced it's bandplan for 2 metre and 70 cm Digital Voice repeaters.

On 2 metres, they have interleaved the D-STAR channels with the existing 20 kHz spacing FM repeaters. They have adopted a similar policy on 70cm with the D-STAR channels offset 12.5 kHz from the 25 kHz FM repeater channels.

We are currently in the period where both FM and D-STAR operations need to co-exist and different solutions to this problem are being used in different parts of the world depending on local circumstances.

In time Digital Voice will replace FM on both 2 metres and 70 cm. Currently D-STAR is the leading contender for Digital Voice, it can operate in 8.33 kHz channel spacing.

SERA Digital Voice Bandplan
http://www.sera.org/D-Star%20Position%20Statement%20-%203.htm

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