[Linux-ham] D-Star comment

[Neil L. Little]

You're right, It's silly too.
I think it refers to FCC type acceptance. Once the rig is in your hands 
though, you can flash the thing with what ever you want.

73,
Neil, WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!
www.jars.net


John C Borkowski III wrote:
> Thats the dopiest thing I have ever heard.
>
> There are a gazillion opensource radio projects currently going on.
>
> Neil L. Little wrote:
>   
>> I believe that FCC also has this thing about software defined radios and 
>> open source. They are afraid that some one is going to do a hack on a 
>> vulnerability and do all manner of mischief with guvmit digital radios. 
>> Right now they are are saying no-no-no-no-no!
>>
>> 73,
>> Neil, WA4AZL
>> JARS Forever!!
>> www.jars.net
>>
>>
>> Steve Jackson wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> If the company in Massachusetts that sells the vocoder chip (I forget their
>>> name) were to sell their chip in unit (or small) quantities, I could
>>> trivially make a small PCB to connect the vocoder to just about any
>>> processor that had enough oomph to address the application plus the
>>> vocoder's input and output.  That way, implementing a non-Icom D-Star node
>>> would be significantly easier since the network control plane is well
>>> documented.  
>>>
>>> Here at work, we have LOTS of small MSP430 MCUs and these could easily
>>> handle the tasks.
>>>
>>> Admittedly I am a hardware guy so all of my solutions are hardware-based,
>>> but as I see it, this is really a simple problem to solve.  Provided I can
>>> get the chips on a non-OEM basis, that is.
>>>
>>> What would a good price for such a board be?  Would experimenters buy such a
>>> board at, say, $50?  $75?
>>>
>>> Perhaps I am missing something and it isn't as easy as it looks to me.  I am
>>> sure I will be corrected if it's so.  But if it is that simple, and if I
>>> knew there was a demand, I'd seriously consider making this board available.
>>>
>>> Steve KZ1X/4
>>>
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