Not a repeater - a regenerative node

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It is generally accepted that for legal and licensing purposes - a D-Star 'repeater' is actually termed a regenerative node. This comes from the data perspective where the function of a D-Star 'repeater' in this context merely receives, decodes, encodes, transmits data generated by a user radio/terminal.

This is particularly important around spectrum allocation, NoV terms and to aid general understanding of the D-Star infrastructure. The term "D-Star Repeater" is only used by Icom in commercial material to promote/market these to (prospective) keepers but in pure technical terms is a little misleading.

On 70cms and 23cms regenerative nodes occupy the data allocation, 2m is a little harder where there are no duplex pairs available for data operation and so traditional 2m repeater pairs have been assigned.

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