Reduce the $$$ barrier? The D-Star chip costs about $25. No one is going to be able to manufacture an open source vocoder chip for less than that.
What WOULD significantly lower the price is competition. Encourage more manufacturers to market D-Star rigs and you'll see the price drop. I'm not sure that this project has any future, but two codecs will probably destroy D-Star, not make it more popular. 73, Scott, N9AA --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, a cutler22 <acutle...@...> wrote: > > The prospect of an open-source vocoder, ham-developed would open a lot of > doors in the way of experimentation, and reduce the $$$ barrier. A DSTAR > protocol implementing Codec2 Digital Voice would significantly drop the > entrance and appeal to a much wider audience! > > -73 de Anthony, KE7HQY >
