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July 30, 2007

Kenwood D-Star

Tmw_706_s Apparently Kenwood is going to make D-Star-compatible radios.

Mercifully, Google (Thanks!) does a decent job of translation into Engrish of the Japanese press release about the Kenwood TMW-706 / TMW-706S.

Apparently the TMW-706 / TMW-706S is a "D-Star Lite" radio - the low-speed interleaved digital voice / data system operating on 144 MHz and 440 MHz that Icom is now emphasizing instead of the original 1.2 GHz 128 Kbps version of D-Star.


By Steve Stroh

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