One could certainly do it, but is it not the start of the path to
madness? Imagine if you needed a dongle for PSK31, one for RTTY,
one for WSJT etc.
Personally I'd rather to see the SDR community advance the Free (as
in freedom) state of the art than support solutions that are
implemented in hardware solely to protect a proprietary codec.
Just one ham's opinion.
Cheers,
Bill (kd5tfd)
At 07:55 PM 6/1/2009, Woodrick, Ed wrote:
But it doesn't preclude the use of D-STAR. (and there is D-STAR data
without voice)
There's a number of efforts where the AMBE chip (a lot of
state-of-art technology crammed into a little chip) is being used to
decode and encode D-STAR signals in a manner completely consistent
with the open source license. You just need to pass the digital data
through the AMBE chip. And with the proper receiver modes, I see no
reason why PowerSDR couldn't decode and encode the GMSK signal necessary.
Ed WA4YIH
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