Hi
I am not sure about the Icom radios you mentioned having digital voice
or not. It would seem to me that a standardized digital voice mode would be
a great enhancement for the HF spectrum.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: Digital Voice
> 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.
>> >
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>> >
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>> >
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>> >
>>
>
>
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