What have you been smoking? P25 will be in play in the public safety arena for at least another 15 years. And Tetra is having IPR issues with Motorola and banding issues with the FCC regarding use in the USA.
There is NO 6.25 requirement. Only an equivalence, just as there is a 12.5 equivalence for the current narrowband Part90 mandate. So, you could run 4 talk paths in a 25 kHz channel and meet the 6.25 'requirement' which has yet to be promulgated. I am of the opinion that if you want to play with this stuff in Part 97, go for it. That's one of the stated purposes for the Amateur Service. I, for one, will continue to operate my 'wideband' fm equipment for the foreseeable future, and if/when a manufacturer makes amateur equipment with these digital modes for no more than 20% above current pricing, I'd buy it. I just don't see that for a fair number of years. Commercial digital equipment is around 50% more to have digital capabilities. WalterH KD7BJJ --- In [email protected], "j.cherry377" <j.cherry...@...> wrote: > > The plan as I have it is to merge P25 and Trbo into a Tetra Product, for > release in 2012, at which time Turbo will be discontinued and abandoned as > its not true 6.25kc and wont comply with the new 2.5kc standard that all will > have to start adhering to. Trbo takes up 12.5kc though it provides 2 voice > paths, its not 6.25kc wide. > > My question is when will the 440 and 2m bands start talking about making a > unified 6.25 kc divisible bandplan and apply it nationwide? They will have to > do it so might as well get started talking about it. I know that there are a > lot of people with 25/30 kc radios that are not going to care for hearing > about this. > > A good first step is to design the layout in 12.5 kc steps for each band and > start planning on at least going to 2.5kc deviation around that time.. >
