[aprssig] OT: Yaesu to release digital amateur radio gear

[Amateur Radio WB8NUT]

D-Star is hardly a waste of time and money. D-Star was developed FOR 
amateur radio. P25 was developed for the Public Sector market.

D-Star is wonderful, and while the Codec is proprietary as I believe is 
the case with the P25 Codec, the rest of D-Star is an open standard.

Frankly, I think Yaesu trying to implement the P25 digital mode instead 
of going with the ever growing and already established D-Star digital is 
a mistake. Just like their Wires linking protocol. They went this way 
while others went with Echolink. Hardly anyone in the U.S. has 
implemented Wires.

Here we go with the VHS v Beta mess again. This time within amateur radio.

But if anything good comes from this, I think it will mean Icom will get 
more aggressive to try and bury P25 in the amateur market.

JMHO

Duffy
www.wb8nut.com

On 12/27/11 10:22 AM, Jason Rausch wrote:
> I am going to go out on a limb and say that Yaesu is trying to introduce a P25 capable HT to the amateur market.  Very exciting to see this, if that is the case.  Coming from a Motorola LMR background, I have always felt that D-Star was a waste of time and money and the effort should have been pushed down the P25 road.
>
> Jason Rausch - KE4NYV
> RPC Electronics, LLC
> www.rpc-electronics.com
>
>
> --- On Tue, 12/27/11, Bob Burns W9RXR<w9rxr_ at rlburns.net>  wrote:
>
>> From: Bob Burns W9RXR<w9rxr_ at rlburns.net>
>> Subject: [aprssig] OT: Yaesu to release digital amateur radio gear
>> To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List"<aprssig at tapr.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, December 27, 2011, 10:00 AM
>> Interesting document posted on
>> Yaesu's web site:
>>
>> http://www.yaesu.com/indexVS.cfm?cmd=DisplayProducts&ProdCatID=111&encProdID=8B1A771611E9963B6AB769C0EC0F6B68&DivisionID=65&isArchived=0
>>
>> In case that URL gets munged, go to the Yaesu home page at
>> http://www.yaesu.com/ , hover your mouse over Products
>> in the menu bar, then click on VHF/UHF Handhelds or VHF/UHF
>> Mobile Transceivers in the drop-down menu. In the horizontal
>> scrolling window of handhelds or mobiles, you'll see a blank
>> spot labeled "Digital NEW!". Click on that and you'll find a
>> link to the PDF of this document.
>>
>> Bob...
>>
>>
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