There's DMR of course. But all of those are based on proprietary encoding. IMO the thing that's most in the spirit of ham radio is freeDV. Interesting possibilities not only for narrow band HF digital voice but also for high quality VHF/UHF digital voice. 

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> On Nov 28, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Pat Byrne <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> 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:
>> =20
>> What=3D20new=3D20Kenwood?=3D20Jim=3D20WA6EKS
>> =20
>> -----=3D20Original=3D20Message=3D20-----
>> From:=3D20Dustin=3D20Thompson=3D20<[log in to unmask]
>> To:[log in to unmask]
>> 
>> Date=3D20sent:=3D20Sat,=3D2028=3D20Nov=3D202015=3D2000:55:54=3D20
>> -0600
>> 
>> Subject:=3D20Now=3D20that=3D20Thanksgiving=3D20has=3D20come=3D20a
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>> 
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>> 3D20has=3D=
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>> =3D20
>> anything=3D20about=3D20the=3D3D
>> =3D20New=3D20Kenwood=3D20yet???????
>> =20
>> 73=3D20Dustin=3D20KF5VXR