Yaesu had something, not sure if they still do, it never went anywhere, 
Kenwood has nothing and I'd doubt if they will. Motorola's system seems to 
be most popular from what I know, mostly because you can run the repeater in 
duel mode, you can either use them for voice or digital, voice users can put 
a tone on the receive so they don't have to hear the digital chatter. I 
wouldn't be shocked to see that, or something like it take off, but DStar's 
biggest problem right now, in my book is, that's what you have with those 
repeaters so you're stuck with it. Also, they're going all over the band, 
and not in the regular repeater segments where they belong. That, along with 
echolink and the lazy people stuff like that, are reasons I really don't get 
on UHF and VHF anymore except for ARES/RACES and NTS stuff, I never rag chew 
there anymore hardly. Maybe that will change when my repeater goes up but 
that will be straight old fashion voice, linked to my 900 MHz machine, and 
hopefully that's it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 2:22 PM
Subject: DSTAR


> Hi;
> Thanks for the dstar info.  I guess I haven't kept up to date on some
> things.  Do kenwood and yaesu have their own versions of dstar?  If so, I
> suppose they are incompatible with each other.  Looked at the review for 
> the
> ic92 and sounds like quite the complex little handheld.
> I'm glad Ray is blazing the trail for the cowardly folks like me.
> Richard