At 11:49 AM 11/26/2008, you wrote: >Thanks Ben, yes I have the DV board, but was also looking to see if there >was a software solution to being able to listen / transmit on DS via a PC as >yet with out a dongle it is only a matter of time till it is done.... And I >had posted this to the wrong group to start with. There are way too many >jerk offs that need to think they know all there is to know in this group.
You deemed to have missed the point. Currently, the patent for the AMBE vocoder that D-STAR uses is held by DVSI. Currently, they only license their software at $100k, so the only economical (and legal) way to get AMBE is to buy the chip. That's what the DV Dongle and other hardware solutions provide. Until the licensing/patent situation with AMBE changes, you're going to be stuck with needing a bit of hardware to perform the audio processing. 73 de VK3JED http://vkradio.com
