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]>
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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
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> >
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