ICOM UK recently launched GB0RSR; the special event station based on the Thames Estuary Maunsell Army Sea Forts, 7 nautical miles off the North Kent coast. On air over the weekend commencing Friday th...
The ICOM Crew will be heading to the Red Sand Forts on Friday the 11th of July for the launch of GB0RSR. Departing from Whitstable Harbour at 7.00am, they hope to be operational by 11.00am. The crew w...
This morning, Paul (G1DVA) from UK-IT completed the commissioning of the GB7SS (Hockley) G2 Gateway. Darren (G7LWT) completed the connection of GB7WT (Omagh) to the G2 network.
Users on both...
The new European Amateur Radio CubeSat project, "OUFTI-1" is proposing to use the D-STAR digital-communication protocol for all aspects of it's space-based operations, after being accepted to be flown...
We are pleased to provide you with a link to a new D-Star movie available on the Icom Inc. website. The new D-Star promotional movie introduces D-Star's fantastic features, capabilities, and outl...
We are pleased to announce the addition of new D-star repeaters to the network. The map
attached show the latest reapeaters that are now operating within the UK.
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Over the last few weeks a team of UK amateurs have been working in the background on the implementation of the G2 Gateway network in the UK.
The team known as the UK Interconnect Team (UK-...
Icom (UK) Ltd are pleased to announce that they are now able to distribute Version 2 of the D-Star Gateway Software ("G2") in the UK. Over the last week, work has been carried out to test the installa...
The recent Blackpool radio rally was a hive of D-Star promotional activity with two stands
featuring real time D-Star demonstrations of simultaneous digital speech and data transfer.
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This summer, Icom UK is to sponsor a unique radio station. This special station called Red Sands Radio will be 7 nautical miles offshore from Whitstable on the North Kent coast in a set of former WWI...
At 11.00am on December 19th, the new Icom D-STAR repeater GB7ML located at ML&S store in Chertsey, Surrey operated for the first time.
Soon the D-STAR repeater will be linked to the internet a...
Jeff Stanton and Nigel McAlpine from Waters & Stanton PLC with John Turner (middle) from Icom UK after installing their new D-Star Repeater Station at their Hockley premises.
The repeater in n...
Increasing uptake in interest in D-STAR has led to an explosion of D-STAR repeaters going live in the UK, Europe and North America. To satisfy this huge demand and cement their commitment to this dig...
Icom UK is pleased to announce new products to its D-Star Digital Product range.
Heading the line up is the New read more >