Not really, as those are more 'generic'...sorta...and don't have licensing or royalties attached. Or at least we're talking so cheap as to be inconsequential. And there's no software generally either.
On 4/2/2010 12:19 PM, MCH wrote: > You mean like the Motorola RF devices and chips used > in many two-way radio products other than Motorola's? > (including directly competing products) > > Joe M. > > wd8chl wrote: >> One good thing, in my book anyway, at least that's all DVSI does is >> vocoders. They don't make radios. They don't make telephones. They don't >> make channel banks or muxes. They just make the chips and some software >> to use them. >> Now, if Icom (or any other radio mfg) came up with their own vocoder, >> and IT had become the standard, such that all other mfg had to pay >> royalties to them, I would have a BIIIG problem with that, because it >> gives that mfg a decidedly unfair advantage. >> >> Jim WD8CHL
