It would benefit the amateur community more to get support behind NON-PROPRIETARY OPEN PROTOCOLS and SYSTEMS like FreeDV, Speex and Codec2.
Why subject yourself to the "AMBE TAX" ???
de ka2pbt
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Steve May steve.w5iem@gmail.com wrote:
The unique feature of D-STAR for amateur use is that if a user doesn't like the price, or doesn't like the fact that ICOM is using an AMBE chip, or doesn't like ICOM because they capitalize every letter in their name, or because they think that the gubment is going to break down their door because they are encrypting their signal, or because they don't like anything new, with D-STAR the user simply doesn't have to use it.
But, if a amateur doesn't like it there is an absolute, gubment-mandated requirement that he or she tell everyone that cares or doesn't as to why he or she doesn't like it and/or why they never will.
Steve, W5IEM On Nov 11, 2013 3:44 AM, "Gordon JC Pearce" gordonjcp@gjcp.net wrote:
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:14:26AM -0600, George Henry wrote:
There are very good reasons why no other amateur radio manufacturer will touch it. George, KA3HSW
What, apart from encryption being illegal on the amateur bands?
Without a radical redesign and a new codec, DStar is just not suitable
for
amateur use. Proprietary software runs counter to the whole principle of amateur radio, and in this case the encrypted proprietary codec is quite possibly not legal for amateur use.
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