I see you were replying to my previous message.  If you were directing
your comments back to me, I'm well aware of the various standards.  

I own an Alinco 635 mobile with it's worthless internal connector for
either a digital voice board that talks to no one (who would buy an
add-on for digital voice with no infrastructure behind it?) or a TNC
that seems to be riddled with complaints.  I wish Alinco simply had a
break-out board that would let me access the the
modulator/discriminator taps so I could use a DV Adapter or Node
Adapter with the radio.  

I can't see Alinco's digital voice mode as anything but a dead end. 
I'd have to guess that their sales of digital and-on boards dropped to
near zero with the rise of D-Star.  

My previous post was merely speculation about Alinco dropping their
current digital voice protocol, adopting D-Star, and putting it in
that new tri-band HT.  What a sweet radio it would be.   

If only ....

Mark (KB9KHM)





--- In [email protected], "Reiner" <reiner.w...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "kb9khm" <kb9khm@> wrote:
> > I did notice on Universal Radio's site that Alinco is releasing a new
> > HT with 2m/440/1.2ghz. ...
> > Mark (KB9KHM)
> 
> There are different digital "standards" used in amateur radio, one is
> Alincos digital voice, one is APCO P25, and one is D-Star. There maybe
> others I don't know. But they are all different. On the english Alinco
> web page you can read some information from their FAQ's:
> 
> http://www.alinco.com/faq.html
> 
> If you like to read about P25 go to this address:
> 
> http://www.apcointl.org/frequency/project25/information.html
> 
> I hope more companies will develop D-Star radios, because this is my
> favorite digital mode. :-)
> 
> 73 de Reiner, dh9fax
>


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