[Elecraft] K3 Digital Voice Mode - our future?

[Sandy]

I could not agree more Don!   There isn't much advantage for amateur 
radio to digital voice operations.   Just another "kink in the wire"!
No advantage at all.  All the digital voice stuff I have heard sounds 
terrible at times.  Motorola's system (proprietary no doubt!) can sound
absolutely awful when signal conditions are bad.

73, to all,

Sandy W5TVW

On 9/17/2015 8:28 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> 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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