[Elecraft] K3 Digital Voice Mode - our future?

[Robert Nobis]

Don,

To a certain extent, I agree with you. I also do not like proprietary technologies. However, if you look at the history of ham radio, many of the products and technologies we use today started out as “proprietary” technologies. Also, much of the history of ham radio is based on experimenting and trying new technologies and techniques. 

At least one of these digital technologies, DMR, is no longer really proprietary. There are at least 20 manufacturers of DMR radios, worldwide.  True, DMR was not originally developed for use by hams, but it clearly is a product technology that many hams are now using on the VHF and UHF bands, even though I doubt we will ever see DMR on the HF bands. 

73,


Bob Nobis - N7RJN
n7rjn at nobis.net


> On Sep 17, 2015, at 18:28, Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com> 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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