[WARC] Fwd: Re: work on d-star clone?

[Clare Jarvis]

Hi All,

I sent a mesage out on the the debian-ham reflector (see below) ahd here is 
the thread of response.

I have searched four vendors for Icom id1 radios.   I find nobody who sells 
the radio without the head and all of them sell it for $999 with the Icom $20 
rebate.   

I do not know where or how anybody is purchasing these radios for under $900.


73 Clare

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Subject: Re: work on d-star clone?
Date: Tuesday 26 August 2008
From: jarvis at jarviscomputer.com
To: "Dennis Boone" <drb at msu.edu>

Tnx for the replies.   I appreciate the information.   It has been
reported on the 14567.org that the vodec is not used on the pure data
mode.   Is that true?

73 Clare
de K0NY





>  > I've not seen anything on D-STAR except ICOM gear.  While the protocol
>  > is open, I understand that the vocoder chip ICOM uses is a proprietary
>  > off the shelf item.  While the chips may be available to the
>  > experimenter, I've read of concerns of there not being a second source
>  > for the chips.
>
> There are worse concerns than that.  Overloading identification data
> (needed for regulatory reasons) for routing purposes, extremely limited
> callsigns (if you're an Aussie with a four letter callsign suffix, no
> D-Star for you...), one radio per callsign (can you say lots of
> technically illicit club calls under US regs?), network size limitations
> that could hail from the 70s, the undocumented nature of the supporting
> protocol for internet linking and services, no software codecs without
> NDA and $kilobucks, etc.  PLEASE WILL THE RF FOLKS GET SOME HELP FROM
> THE DIGITAL FOLKS WHEN DESIGNING THIS STUFF?
>
> High speed data ain't == D-Star, and I personally hope something
> sensible comes along.
>
> KB8ZQZ
>
>
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