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Hello Lou,
You can both sen and receive digital voice with the AOR units.

73


Ron Miller 

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Louis Kim Kline
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 9:51 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Digital Voice

Hi.

Is this just for receiving purposes, or do you have the capability of
transmitting digital voice as well?

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 08:03 AM 8/5/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Good morning Jeff and everyone,
>AOR makes a digital voice unit which is intended for amateur hf use. I 
>have read posts to the HFPack list from people who are using it both in 
>base and portable setups.
>
>Evidently, the normal audio from the radio is passed through the unit 
>so that you can hear regular analog signals and all of the atmospheric 
>noise but when a digital voice signal is detected and the two voice 
>units sync all of the background noise and static are muted and all you 
>hear is speech until the transmission has ended.
>
>73
>
>
>Ron Miller
>N6MSA
>Clearwater Florida
>SKYPE: arjay1
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: For blind ham radio operators 
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>On Behalf Of Jeff Kenyon
>Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 10:18 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Digital Voice
>
>I don't know, but the most experimenting I have heard with digital 
>voice has been the APCO-25 digital in use for public safety.  It is 
>because public safety radios for VHF/UHF can tune the ham bands and use 
>the digital voice mode.
>
>
>
>
>
>On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Colin McDonald wrote:
>
> > what about the D star radios from Icom? don't they do some sort of 
> > digital voice?
> > I know they do digital data, but i thought they also did some sort 
> > of digital voice incription as well.
> >
> > only problem with doing digital voice on the amateur bands is that 
> > it has to be a completely open source incription type that anyone 
> > could easily decode since if it weren't,it could be considered 
> > secret encoded messages, which, as far as i know, are illegal in the 
> > US as well without permission from the FCC?
> >
> > The canadian regulations, paraphrasing of course, make it illegal to 
> > use any kind of secret code to pass messages without express 
> > permission from the government.  Digital voice incription could 
> > potentially fall under that category.
> > If someone was using say provoice or even apco 25 on a local simplex 
> > frequency, it would be nearly impossible for me, or anyone else to 
> > know what they were saying since we wouldn't have the necessary 
> > codec to decode their transmission.  The transmission would there 
> > for be in a "secret" code and against regulations.
> > Now,if a person offered the software or instructions on how to build 
> > a decoder on a website, or in a popular monthly magazine, the idea 
> > of secretive incoding would be no longer secretive since many people 
> > would have the means of decoding it.
> > just my view point anyway,i could be off the mark on this one, but i 
> > have pondered it for some time since our 52 group has tossed around 
> > the idea of digitalizing our transmissions.
> > 73
> > Colin, V A6BKX
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 2:40 AM
> > Subject: Re: Digital Voice
> >
> >
> > > Hi, there is an external card for APCO-25 modulation for the 
> > > Uniden BC259D scanner, but nothing I know of for the ham bands.  
> > > There have been a few experiments though with APCO-25 useage on 
> > > the ham bands
>though.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Frederick wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >     I have been wondering for sometime if there are any digital 
> > > > voice converters that a person could plug in to there older 
> > > > analog rigs. I
> > think
> > > > that transmitting and receiving in digital voice on the ham 
> > > > bands would
> > be
> > > > the coolest thing.
> > > >                     God bless,
> > > >                     Mark WZ0K
> > > > God loves you!
> > > > My personal prayer book.
> > > > Add your prayer or pray for others at the following link.
> > > >
> > http://prayerbook.homewithgod.com/cgi-bin/prayerbook/multi.pl?131961
> > 11
> > 3534708:24:0
> > > >
> > > > http://lists.topica.com/lists/funhamradio.
> > > > http://groups.google.com/group/funhamradio-list
> > > >
> > > > http://funhamradio.bloki.com
> > > >
> > >
> >

Louis Kim Kline
A.R.S. K2LKK
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