Well, some manufacturers are coming out with multidigital mode radios, DMR 
and NXDN for example. I almost wonder if maybe this battle between modes 
will go on for 10-15 years, they'll calm down all the innovations in it a 
little and possibly a multimode radio will come out with say the best 3 or 
so of them and that will be that. I don't think the manufacturers like yaesu 
which now have 2 of them, one a huge failure and the other not much better 
so far, or DStar will be them. It may come down to ones we haven't even 
heard of yet but linking the mode to one manufacturer is not going to work 
to it's success in the amateur realm. Commercial maybe since motorola pretty 
well gets their hooks in communities and that's that but even at that, I'm 
seeing more and more communities by me changing to Icom, Kenwood, Tate, and 
getting away from the bit M and finding they like the radios a lot better 
and I think if any of them look in to Icom's IDAS, if they want to go 
digital, there are some nice features that go along with that, not overly 
advertised, but great features for public service that no other digital mode 
I know of has except possibly DMR which I know little about but I don't 
think so.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Pat Byrne
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 10:33 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: New Kenwood? what new Kenwood?

And what concerns me Jim is which digital protocole will
survive?  Yaesu has theirs and of course, Icom has Dstar, and perhaps
that's not all the entries.  And our local police are a part of a
Motorola, state-wide P25 system and I struggle to hear what is being
said.  These old ears don't hear all that well any more, even with
overpriced hearing aids!
Pat, K9JAUAt 02:12 AM 11/28/2015, you wrote:
>Oh, well I for one am not yet interested in digital radio.  I
>wonder if it will develop into a flap like when, in the fifties,
>people were changing from AM to SSB? Yes I know digital offers
>infinitely more possibilities than that transition,  but it is
>still worth investigating before jumping into it particularly
>because of the accessibility questions that so often plague blind
>folks these days.  73, Jim WA6EKS
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>From: Dustin Thompson <[log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date sent: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 02:04:07 -0600
>Subject: Re: New Kenwood? what new Kenwood?
>
>The DStar trip bander, or that's was the word at a ham convention
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>73 Dustin KF5VXR
>
>
>  On Nov 28, 2015, at 1:56 AM, Jim Gammon <[log in to unmask]>
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