I've noticed since I've gotten into this again that there is a lot of
closed-source thinking
in the ham world. A lot of devices with microcontrollers released as
binary only, for example.
Not very good if you want to build something the guy no longer makes
available.
On 10/20/17 12:12 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Oct 20, 2017, at 11:03 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk <[email protected]>
wrote:
...
Was looking at the digital repeater modes this morning
http://www.mikemyers.me/blog/2016/2/19/d-star-dmr-fusion-which-is-right-for-you
Pretty disappointing that the most popular ones use proprietary comms protocols.
I see that Yaesu's "Fusion" is closed, but D-Star is open. For DMR it doesn't
say; is it published but with license fees, as is sometimes done?
I've suggested to the ARRL in the past that they should treat closed protocols
as non-existent, so for example Yaesu radios would show in their review
articles as analog only. That might help somewhat to fix this issue.
paul, ni1d
