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 >
