First D-STAR on 10m and 6m ?

In a posting on the Illinois Digital Ham Group, Mark G7LTT/NI2O describes what may be one of the first transmissions of the Digital Voice mode D-STAR on the Amateur Radio 10m and 6m bands.

Mark describes his equipment as "2 Yaesu FT-8900 quad band FM rigs (10/6/2/440) and 2 of Satoshi's DV adapters".

So far D-STAR has been limited to the 2 metre and 70 cm bands, however, add on DV adaptors enable the use of rigs on other Amateur bands.

Homebrew DV adapter
http://d-star.dyndns.org/rig.html.en
and
http://d-star.dyndns.org/ambe_adapter.html.en

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