[Elecraft] K3 Digital Voice Mode - our future?

[Don Wilhelm]

You have listed 3 digital voice modes that do not talk to each other.  
Furthermore, I recall that these are proprietary coding schemes.
That is not "Ham Radio" in my mind.  Ham Radio is "everyone can talk to 
everyone else", and those digital voice systems where you can only talk 
to those hams who have purchased the same brand of equipment as you have 
selected is more like commercial circuits where you want to shut out 
those who do not 'speak the same language that you do'.

I don't think proprietary protocols belong on the ham bands - just my 
not so humble opinion.  Yes, I am also opposed to proprietary data modes.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 9/17/2015 9:03 PM, Robert Nobis wrote:
> Take a look at the digital voice modes that are being used on the VHF and UHF bands: DMR, D-STAR and Fusion.
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