On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:34:35AM -0700, a cutler22 wrote: > It seems to be competitive in the current market, a third-party daughter > board similar to UT-118 would have to be developed that had dual > AMBE/Codec2 capability, and sold at-cost to undercut the current UT-118 > cost. Assuming (warning - monster assumption!) the SMT design was donated > by hams and it was sold at cost, and it had automatic codec detection and > switching capability, it would be a competitive way to bring an open > source codec to "DSTAR".
It's not that simple. You'd need to develop boards compatible with the UT-118, and the UT-123 (for the IC-2820), and whatever's built into the ID-800 and ID-880, and every other D-Star radio. Not a trivial undertaking. Further, you'd have to update the firmware on every radio out there. Don't get me wrong. Open source codecs are important. The time for updating the codec in D-Star has passed, though. -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC at K6ZC port B http://www.conmicro.com http://www.k6zc.org http://www.tronguy.net http://jmaynard.livejournal.com (Yes, that's me!) http://www.hercules-390.org
