Re: [Repeater-Builder]DVSI was: Nice article on the Molotora Gontor

2010-04-02 Thread MCH
IOW, they aren't *required* to use Motorola's products. Joe M. wd8chl wrote: > Not really, as those are more 'generic'...sorta...and don't have > licensing or royalties attached. Or at least we're talking so cheap as > to be inconsequential. And there's no software generally either. > > On 4/2

Re: [Repeater-Builder]DVSI was: Nice article on the Molotora Gontor

2010-04-02 Thread wd8chl
Not really, as those are more 'generic'...sorta...and don't have licensing or royalties attached. Or at least we're talking so cheap as to be inconsequential. And there's no software generally either. On 4/2/2010 12:19 PM, MCH wrote: > You mean like the Motorola RF devices and chips used > in ma

Re: [Repeater-Builder]DVSI was: Nice article on the Molotora Gontor

2010-04-02 Thread MCH
You mean like the Motorola RF devices and chips used in many two-way radio products other than Motorola's? (including directly competing products) Joe M. wd8chl wrote: > One good thing, in my book anyway, at least that's all DVSI does is > vocoders. They don't make radios. They don't make teleph

Re: [Repeater-Builder]DVSI was: Nice article on the Molotora Gontor

2010-04-02 Thread wd8chl
On 4/2/2010 2:17 AM, Nate Duehr wrote: > But anyway... good luck finding a commercial product that doesn't use > their chipset anytime soon. The next CODEC chipset maker is going to be > an "also-ran" forever, unless their mathematicians and algorithms are > uber-brilliant. > > Nate WY0X One go