D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) is a digital voice and data protocol specification developed as the result of research by the Japan Amateur Radio League to investigate digital technologies for amateur radio.
@mstax DVSI owns the patent on D-Star's voice coding. There's a free replacement being worked on, called Codec 2. It's not a cracked version, but a new codec made from scratch, led by a guy who took his PhD on voice coding.
Good stuff, and I'd love to try it, but it's just way, wayyyyyy too expensive. As long as ICOM holds the virtual monopoly on this, there's no reason for them to bring the price down. Don't get me wrong, either; I'm an 'ICOM' man. But there needs to be competition in this market.
To mstax; No they dont, its just that the others (Yeasu, Kenwood, others) havent decided to get into it. Its the other companies that have left ICOM to seem exclusive to D-Star - which they're not! You either LOVE it or HATE it, there's no grey with it. I happen to LOVE it. Its NOT the same thing as IRLP or Echolink.
Does Icom own the patent or licensing rights to D-Star? The main resistance I have to this technology is that, at this time, only Icom seems to be making transceivers using it.
We have developed open source controller programs that allow you to use analogue radios as D-Star gateways and repeaters. There's even a fully software repeater controller program that uses cheap $1/£1 USB sound fobs.
You still need a D-Star radio however at each end ;-(
There is an add-on device that will convert an analogue radio to D-Star, but its as expensive as a new analogue radio.
This video should be remixed- the music is as loud or louder then the narrator. W2PW (WD2NY D-star)
presw 1 week ago
@mstax Update: While the voice coding patent is owned by DVSI, I-Com does own the trademark "D-Star".
SupremeRulahXenu 10 months ago
@mstax DVSI owns the patent on D-Star's voice coding. There's a free replacement being worked on, called Codec 2. It's not a cracked version, but a new codec made from scratch, led by a guy who took his PhD on voice coding.
SupremeRulahXenu 10 months ago
Good stuff, and I'd love to try it, but it's just way, wayyyyyy too expensive. As long as ICOM holds the virtual monopoly on this, there's no reason for them to bring the price down. Don't get me wrong, either; I'm an 'ICOM' man. But there needs to be competition in this market.
rasputinsdog 10 months ago
To mstax; No they dont, its just that the others (Yeasu, Kenwood, others) havent decided to get into it. Its the other companies that have left ICOM to seem exclusive to D-Star - which they're not! You either LOVE it or HATE it, there's no grey with it. I happen to LOVE it. Its NOT the same thing as IRLP or Echolink.
FamousTVvoice 1 year ago
@FamousTVvoice Really? What does France have against D-Star?
Iamcartmanxd 1 year ago
Does Icom own the patent or licensing rights to D-Star? The main resistance I have to this technology is that, at this time, only Icom seems to be making transceivers using it.
mstax 1 year ago
I use and love D-Star but cant help but point out the irony of this video using images of Paris (@ 5minutes in) when D-Star is ILLEGAL in France!
FamousTVvoice 1 year ago
Superb Video well done
Thanks
Dr David Ball
Drdavidball 1 year ago
We have developed open source controller programs that allow you to use analogue radios as D-Star gateways and repeaters. There's even a fully software repeater controller program that uses cheap $1/£1 USB sound fobs.
You still need a D-Star radio however at each end ;-(
There is an add-on device that will convert an analogue radio to D-Star, but its as expensive as a new analogue radio.
BarryMung 1 year ago