They don't want to invest in anything unless they know it's going to sell. Manufacturers are a fairly conservative bunch. The M17 Project, but its too early to tell Newradio initiative in Germany/Austria, and so on. Holdings DV4 Mobile, the HT of the Future (aka: Algoram, Katena, Whitebox), the Keen observers have noticed a number of good radio initiatives
With open firmware where we could load our own apps or alterative codec. Codec2/FreeDV is a good conception, but it hasn'tĬome to fruition in the advent of the AMBE patents expiring and other digital radios alsoĮmploying AMBE and flooding the market. There is a working implementation for HF. However, none of these digital modes have a means to specify or differentiate theĪudio codec should they ever want to move away from AMBE. The proposed solution has been to replace this with an open source codec. It's since been compounded by DMR, Yaesu Fusion, and other digital Introduced to ham radio in the late 90's earlyĢ000's. (speech coder) problem started when D-Star was developed and
Improving Open-AMBE for D-Star Improving Open-AMBE for D-Star
