D-Star to Analog with the NWDR AMBE3000 board

In this video you can see how I created a simple D-Star to Analog audio bridge using the G4KLX Dummy Repeater and ircDDB Gateway software running on a Windows XP PC together with a DMK Engineering URI (USB Radio Interface).

The Dummy Repeater emulates the G4KLX D-Star Repeater software and allows you to talk directly to the ircDDB Gateway from your PC... or an analog FM radio using the URI. the G4KLX software supports the URI directly making for easy interfacing to a traditional analog FM radio.

I'm also using the North West Digital Radio DV3000 AMBE board. The DV3000 is plugged into a Raspberry Pi and I'm running the AMBE server software which allows the G4KLX Dummy Repeater to access the AMBE chip across my home network. The Dummy Repeater will also work with the blue DV Dongle as well.

I'm not sure why the speaker volume on the URI output went to zero while I was talking... I'll have to do some investigation into that!

I would not recommend you using a setup like this to connect to a Dplus reflector or gateway. Connecting non D-Star sources to Dplus reflectors is frowned upon. I did test it with my own D-Star repeater, VK5REX and it worked perfectly.