On Aug 31, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Tony Langdon wrote: > My point. Don't write off digital HFvoice. It's still early > days. I doubt D-STAR is going to have great performance on HF, but > hey, if one can experiment, why not? Worst that can happen is it > won't work. ;)
Culturally, that's why we'll never see it in a radio built by the Japanese. There's very little of the cultural concept you would know as "have a go" in their world. This is one of the reasons that very few SDR or other "bleeding edge" projects STARTED in Japan. (Sure, some hobbyist engineers jump in and help AFTER someone takes the initial risk and releases a first-cut.) It's also one of the reasons I was very surprised to hear that Icom had released D-STAR in the first place, until I figured out that they were just using Amateurs as a test bed for their commercial digital system that was released later on... we were just the guinea pigs. (My opinion, anyway.) Japanese business is a very odd thing for outsiders to "get"... it has good/bad characteristics, but some of these things are deeply rooted in cultural norms we aren't even aware of from the outside. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [email protected]
