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
>and the DS=
>tar mailing list...=20
>
>73 Dustin KF5VXR
>
>
>  On Nov 28, 2015, at 1:56 AM, Jim Gammon <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
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>Date=3D20sent:=3D20Sat,=3D2028=3D20Nov=3D202015=3D2000:55:54=3D20
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