From a practical point of view they are pretty equivalent. Both run
fine with the DVAR software. G4ULF's package is being tested against
both and a few bugs and documentation issues are still being worked
out before general release. They do have different licensing terms
for their firmware which you may want to consider, I like PA4YBR's
terms better. Satoshi makes disparaging remarks about other
manufacturers of boards and firmware on his site, but does offer a
nice enclosure with his boards.
I will say that KI4LKFs (now unsupported) program RPTR and PA4YBRs
firmware have some minor annoying problems on my setup, but we will
eventually get it sorted out.
Enicomms is in the US, Satoshi is in Japan, and PA4YBR also offers a
board out of the Netherlands.
http://www.dutch-star.eu/ - Fred, PA4YBR/KA4YBR
http://d-star.dyndns.org/ - Satoshi Yasuda, 7M3TJZ/AD6GZ
http://enicomms.com/ - Mark, G7LTT/NI2O
On Aug 26, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Charles Scott wrote:
John, anyone:
Is there a difference between the Satoshi and Enicomms node adapters
that I need to consider?
Yes, the VXR-5000 does have discriminator output. I believe the TX
side can be optioned to be flat, but don't know much beyond that, so
I'll have to do some research.
Chuck - N8DNX
John D. Hays
Amateur Radio Station K7VE
PO Box 1223
Edmonds, WA 98020-1223 VOIP/SIP: [email protected]
