Hi Bruce,
On 29-11-11 13:30, Bruce Perens wrote: >> there are a lot of hams who are mostly "users" who have payed a lot of >> money for the D-STAR radios > Which is just too bad. Appliance users who spend lots of money always > lock themselves in. We can help the people who want to mod their radios, > sometimes, if someone out there is willing to engineer a daughter board > replacement. We aren't responsible to do that ourselves. My opinion is somewhere in between: I agree that this should not be a reason not to experiment, but, in the end, we are all hams. In the end, if it wasn't for i-com, the JARL and all the hams who invested a lot of time and money in equipement (not only radios, also repeaters, remember that the homebrew repeaters only appeared later), VHF/UHF ham Digital Voice simply wouldn't exist; nor the projects from people like Jonathan and Jan who now give us the possibility to experiment with it. I do think these people do own us this respect. So, the least we can do, is to make sure we do not create a situation where hams get a lot of R2D2 from from radio or, even worse, have the firmware in their radio crash. Anycase, the only point I was making is that you should be aware that there is an group of people in the D-STAR who think that D-STAR is having a difficult task as it is and who prefer the status quouo for that reason. If there is one thing I have learn about the D-STAR world the last year, it is that is a world with quite a number of people with big egos! >> That would require a "(re)programmable" HT. It's not because a HT uses >> SDR internally that the manufactorer has any reason to make that >> interface available externally. I would expect them to keep that as much >> "closed in" as possible. > I was not proposing to wait for ICOM, Kenwood, or Yaesu to do this, or > some Chinese manufacturer. One alternative is to make a new business and > give David some work. Another is to do it as a project like HPSDR. I am > exploring the potential for funding such a business. I do the opening > keynote of the Wireless Innovation Forum at 9 AM today and will include > a short discussion of the project. Nice idea! :-) Is that speech online somewhere so we can have a look at it? > Thanks > Bruce 73 Kristoff - ON1ARF ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Freetel-codec2 mailing list Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2
