Nate Duehr wrote: > Interesting... sending to Illinois Digital, D-Star, and Repeater-Builder > lists; Raytheon has a box that supposedly takes baseband audio from an > analog repeater that has a P25 radio transmitting into it, and turns it > back into analog... > > http://www.jps.com/downloads/pdfs/P25CCfinal.pdf > > I'm sure the price tag is out of reach for most Amateur applications, > but it's "here"... convert your old analog systems to P25 via a black > box. I know folks were talking about how to do this, so figured it > would be of interest to some. > > A little "competition" perhaps for D-Star, if it's significantly cheaper > than buying a used Quantar... and I'm sure it'll get cheaper over time... > > Interesting stuff. > > Nate WY0X
Yeah-I was researching that for some former customers at my last job. Looks really cool-basically a tone panel for P25. But the list price I heard was on the order of $10K...although one panel will do 4 repeaters...bit annoying when you have a 5-channel trunk (which is a very common configuration). Jim
