Unless Icom becomes the principle manufacturer of amateur radio equipment 
and Kenwood and Yaesu gradually fade out of the picture.  That isn't too 
far fetched to imagine as Icom seems to be doing a lot more research and 
development than the other players.  Besides that, I wonder what effect the 
current economic fiasco will have on a market that was kind of marginal to 
start with.  My guess is that some if not many of the players will simply 
drop out.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 05:20 PM 10/18/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>no current Kenwood radios do DSTAR that I know of, Icom is the only one and
>no one else has any interest in taking it on, which is why it's destined to
>fail.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:04 AM
>Subject: Re: d-star
>
>
> >    Richard:
> >
> > The new Kenwood TMV71A does not do D-star.
> >
> > 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:36 AM
> > Subject: d-star
> >
> >
> >> Hello folks;
> >> Has anyone tried playing with dstar?  It will be interesting if that
> >> catches
> >> on.  Does the new kenwood tmv71a do dstar?
> >> Also has the ict90 been discontinued?  If I am correct and it has, do its
> >> replacements also have a cw read out for frequency?
> >> Thanks
> >> Richard
> >>
>
>
>
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