Hi Mooneer,
I tend to agree - most hams just want a turn-key appliance that they can
get on the air with, and a large user base so they have someone to talk
to - and that is fine. The Linux/open source community tends to be more
sensitive to open/closed source issues. However Ham Radio is a broad
hobby, and Codec 2 has some appeal to those that lean towards
experimentation.
Re 2020 - a modem/waveform upgrade like the recent 700D/700E work might
help it.
Cheers,
David
On 17/2/21 9:01 am, Mooneer Salem wrote:
(For reference, the thread Alan is referring to is here
<https://groups.io/g/repeater-builder/topic/a_poll_for_preference_analog/80561243?p=Created,,,20,1,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,80561243&jump=1>.)
I get the feeling that proprietary vs. open (in the sense of
licensing/patents) isn't the most important issue for most hams per
se. However, it does manifest itself indirectly in several ways. One
way in particular is increased difficulty in implementation for third
parties; for instance, Icom was the only source for new D-STAR radios
for quite a while until Kenwood came out with (and then discontinued)
the TH-D74A. Ironically, the seemingly high usage of DMR in the
commercial space likely lowered the adoption cost enough such that
it's increasingly becoming one of the preferred VHF/UHF digital voice
modes.
Anyway, promoting "open" in the sense of "ease of adoption"
(patent/royalty free, implementable simply by linking in the Codec2
libraries, etc.) is probably going to be the most productive way of
arguing it overall.
(BTW, I recently had a QSO in 2020 mode and it sounded pretty good
IMO. Of course, it was far more sensitive to SNR and propagation
disruptions than 700D and E, so I don't foresee using it too often--at
least until we're higher up in the sunspot cycle, anyway.)
-Mooneer K6AQ
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 12:09 PM Al Beard via Freetel-codec2
<freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net
<mailto:freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote:
Hi,
Have you been reading the topic: A poll for preference. Analog or
digital?
on the RepeaterBuilder email group?
It's all about audio quality or intelligibility.
Not one has mentioned, *we are stuck using proprietary vocoders.*
No innovation is possible either in the audio encoding or decoding,
yet keeping the systems (data over radio layer) compatible.
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