[SGVHAK] ham radio equipment recommendation

[Braddock Gaskill]

I was thinking of DSTAR (Icom), and C4FM (Yaesu), but now I see that DMR
(Motorola) is also competitive in the amateur market.

It is a bad situation.  There are some proprietary patent encumbered voice
codecs in use as well (at least in DSTAR) to complicate matters further.

In *THEORY* DSTAR is an open standard developed by the Japanese amateur
radio community, but the only working implementation AFAIK is Icom.

Frankly, I would just avoid digital VHF/UHF.

-braddock

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 3:49 PM, yoshio <ak209 at lafn.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 03:00:23PM -0700, Tux Lab wrote:
> > Does that mean each vendor has it's own digital implimentation
> > standard so digital radio from one vendor may not be able to use the
> > digital repeater from another vendor?
>
> Yes.  Oh, Motorola has DMR (which they call MOTOTRBO):
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_mobile_radio
>
> There
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXDN
> Kenwood has their own version of DMR, NEXEDGE.
>
> I didn't know there were DMR repeaters in SoCal:
>
> https://www.repeaterbook.com/repeaters/FeatureSearch.php?state_id=06&type=MOTOTRBO
> (Search term was "dmr repeater ham southern california") using
> https://duckduckgo.com/ )
>
>
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