Another thing to think about is that AOR, with their Digital HF also uses the AMBE chip. I believe that it is knocked down to a lower transfer rate, but it is the same chip. So it could be possible to kill two birds with one stone with an AMBE implementation.
http://www.aorusa.com/ard9800.html for details. -----Original Message----- From: Bob McGwier [mailto:rwmcgw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:36 PM To: Woodrick, Ed Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] vhf/uhf digital modes and repeater operation I believe that we should follow the route that Ed is suggesting, even as it sticks in my craw. We can buy a dongle for less than $125 depending on who you get it from and with how much support, etc. that will do the AMBE encoding and decoding. We can have open source D-Star but talk to this dongle and much more. I think we hold our nose and realize we are going to be interoperable with P25 services of first responders and paying much less than would otherwise be required to get D-Star. I am an idealist, or otherwise I would not have given away five years of effort to Flex and this community for NOT ONE SINGLE RED CENT outside of those things my employer wants me to do. Yet for the greater good, I believe in this case, we should compromise. When and if a new standard becomes available, and we can get it done open source GPL, we drop it in. Bob N4HY _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
