The Vertex MotoTrbo product is just a re-badged and watered down Motorola
product and nothing more. No point re-inventing the wheel for the big M, and
also they need to compromise in the marketplace, without upsetting their
Motorola Sales/Dealers.
HYT will be the ones to watch as their gear is Trbo backwards compatible.
Cheers
Gareth Bennett
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 7:26 AM
Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] HAM Mototrbo Systems
I think it will be interesting to see whether Motorola expands/offers
MotoTrbo to the Vertex/Standard/Yaesu radios, now that they have ownership in
Vertex/Standard.
IMHO, adding MotoTrbo options to the Yaesu line would be one “easy, quick and
dirty” way to attempt to wrest digital away from Icom/D-STAR.
This could get to be very interesting…
Mark – N9WYS
From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com On Behalf Of John Crockett
Eric:
Back here in the Southeast there are two UHF MotoTrbo repeaters being
coordinated in the Charlotte, NC area. It will be interesting if this digital
technology will take off. In SC we have enough D-Star repeaters to cover the
state, but the number of users is low. It will take a long time before it is
viable as a parallel statewide communications system. Analog FM is still the
back bone of our statewide communications system and it will be for years to
come. www.scheart.us The question in the back of my mind is. Is MotoTrbo the
digital technology that will leap frog D-Star? I guess we can stay tuned for
the outcome!
John,
KC4YI
