George The thinking is HSMM-MESH is a powerful tool in high density scenarios and should be part of the ecosystem. There is also a need for higher power, mobile and point to point links. The UDR56K

Gee, Nate, how quickly you went to marginalizing other viewpoints by characterizing folks as "lemmings." I submit to you that market forces may not be technically perfect - but that these forces

The one thing that is common to all of these technolegies is eithernet and TCP/IP. Currently the Internet is the method of transport where we as hams become dependant on the commercial common

It would be nice to have a patent free alternative, but where is the money going to come from to get Codec2 developed to the point where it is a viable alternative to AMBE? As I said in another group

And there is nothing patent encumbered in any of your other equipment? DSP chips in new HF receivers, etc? Except for the fact that it is patent encumbered and that is a stumbling block for those of

* On 2012 28 Jul 22:41 -0500, Howard Small wrote: Except for the fact that it is patent encumbered and that is a stumbling block for those of us who want an amateur radio community controlled, from

Well, I'm not sure what sort of wireless network you're talking about, but down here, one can never forget distance. The telcos actually do a pretty good job of providing coverage down here, given

I agree about the need for a wireless network, cost of pure digital gear and hardware adoption; I disagree that complexity is how it has to be. I don't have my local work in progress D-Star node

I agree about the need for a wireless network, cost of pure digital gear and hardware adoption; I disagree that complexity is how it has to be. I don't have my local work in progress D-Star node

I agree about the need for a wireless network, cost of pure digital gear and hardware adoption; I disagree that complexity is how it has to be. I don't have my local work in progress D-Star node

We will have to map around the stubborn for the sake of the goal. There's always another Ham (or Hams), another tower (or towers), another way. The absence of a robust, independent, redundant, and

I can’t agree with your reading of the situation. Yaesu has not offered an alternative – all they have offered is a radio: no infrastructure, nothing, just a radio that is pretty well incompatible

Not really; most currently available digital voice systems aren't directly compatible, even within the same technology, so we have to find alternate ways to interconnect them as it is. I'm also

As someone noted, D-Star is getting a bit long in the tooth so it was inevitable that an alternative would appear - thus Yaesu. Icom has to decide to play-nicely or to try to block Yaesu, and/or

Indeed; this is something that is highly needed with linked systems like D-Star, and to a lesser extent with Amateur use of DMR and NXDN. Matthew Pitts N8OHU Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

Google Chat was down this morning, then Twitter went down. Cell towers are infamous for failures during emergencies, esp. due to backup power failure and microwave-linking dishes knocked out of

Has anybody read the NXDN Open air RF Specs that were released? William Stillwell – Ki4SwY ICOM NXDN Repeater – 442.7625 IRLP Node # 8549 New Port Richey, FL

Hello to the group, It's great to here updated news on the UDR56k. I'm hoping it will be a great radio to run on a new US network called DSAP (Digital Smart Access Point). From my understanding

Matthew and Ronny, All alpha work is internal to the core development team. Early beta work will be limited to the core development team, later beta will involve a few selected individuals some of

The specification is for the entire 70cm Amateur radio band, 420-450 mHz. (75% of our team lives north of Line-A, so 420-430 on air tests require getting south of the line!) The bandwidth is