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It was June 29, 2009, on Field Day weekend that 3 Ham got together
with 3 MotoTRBO XPR-8300 repeaters located in 2 different states and
connected those repeaters together via IPSC.
Repeater Firmware version R01.04.09
had just been released and was the first version to support
IPSC. All 3 hams were using XPR-6500's running version
R01.04.01 firmware.The 3 Hams were:
Randy, WB0VHB located in Mt. Pleasant Iowa
Ray, WA6NVL located in Culver City, California
Mike, WB6WUI located in Costa Mesa California (now NO7RF
living in Winthrop WA)
All three
repeaters were sitting on the desks or countertops and all 3 repeaters
were the original R01.xx demo repeaters that had been
sitting on the dealer shelves for several years.
These repeaters were part of the
original Motorola demonstration packages provided to
dealers that failed to catch wind. 2 of these
repeaters were purchased from Sandy's Communications
(still our #1 Ham
Friendly Dealer).
Ray WA6NVL made an acoustically coupled
recording of this first conversation. It is available here via
this
MP3.
This was the first Ham IPSC conversation in the world as far as we
know (let
us know if otherwise).
From this conversation, the TRBO-6 and later,
DCI networks were formed. The c-Bridge came along 21 months
later in March of 2011. That was really when HAM DMR began its
major growth and still continues. More background in
DCI History.
UPDATE June 27, 2016: Since those
early days, all 3 of us still have TRBO repeaters and are reasonably
active. Randy has had his repeater on DCI since the TRBO-6/DCI
splintering of networks. Ray has moved his repeater to San
Diego and is now on the SF-TRBO network. Mike moved to
Winthrop WA in 2009 and still has repeaters on the DCI c-Bridge and
is active in PNW-DMR.
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