D-Star Breathes New Life into Amateur Radio
D-Star is the newest mode I have recently added to my Amateur Radio arsenal. I bought an Icom ID-31A D-star, radio which I will be reviewing here soon, but I wanted to share a little about D-star and why it’s a cool mode before I did the review. The History of D-Star D-star is a mode that was created by the Japanese Amateur Radio League in 2001 after doing three years of research. JARL designed it as an open standard so that manufacturers could build the radios. Icom is the first company to make radios for D-star, however they aren’t…