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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Hi Eric,</span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">While the protocol is open, the CODEC is not.</span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">This makes D*Star not so open.</span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">The AMBE codec chip is about $20.00 a piece in singletons.</span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;">73 - Bill KA8VIT</span>
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On January 6, 2012 at 8:57 AM Eric Lorenz K9LGE <k9lge@emlorenz.com> wrote:
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<p>Duffy,</p>
<p>It is all about perception though...yes, Dstar is an 'open' protocol. Yes, anyone can license and manufacture equipment for it. So who (of the major ones) has done it? Icom. So yes, regardless of the reality...Dstar *appears* to be an Icom protocol. All that has to happen for that to change is for another manufacturer to get in the game. It would *appear* though...that this is going to remain Icom's thing for now.</p>
<p>Eric K9LGE</p>
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