At 5/30/2007 07:08 AM, you wrote: >No they don't however, Icom recently teamed up with Kenwood to develop and >deploy another new digital mode (as yet unnamed last I heard) that >reportedly operates within the new FCC ultra narrow 6.25Khz channel plan. >An Icom America representative recently told me that this new digital mode >in their commercial line (see the F5061 and F6061) is very similar to >D-Star but not interchangable with it. >Gary
This may be the basis for the rumor at Dayton that Kenwood demoed a DStar radio in Japan. Don't see anything about it on the Kenwood Japan web page, though. Bob NO6B

