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.
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Interopability that's the question! D-STAR is an Amateur Radio Digital voice & data format,Right?
In a true crisis or public sevice event, can D-STAR be link with P-25 to pass crucial information to Emergency Management Agencies? Or do we need to relay on other system?
Posted by: Adam | October 01, 2009 at 06:08 AM