Ham Radio's Digital Future - IRA fields digital migration plan for repeaters

The Illinois Repeater Association now has a proposed digital repeater plan.

Titled "The Digital Migration - A Proposed Path", the strategy was developed by Robert Shepard, KA9FLX, who serves as the organization's Technical Committee Chairman.

Shepard indicates that the plan was crafted so as to serve the needs of tomorrows digital relay systems in such a way as to minimize impact on to existing analog systems. It also takes into account how to integrate digital systems into the
existing analog environment, utilize spectrum efficiently and plan for the future. In other words, nobody will be displaced when and if its implemented. Rather, its goal is to make it
possible for analog and digital to share spectrum with minimal impact on one another.

This is believed to be the very first analog to digital repeater bandplan developed anywhere in the world. Shepard has posted it on the Illinois Repeater Associations website as both a .pdf file as well as a full Power Point presentation. You can find it on-line at www.ilra.net.

Source: ARNewsline

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